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JAMES BROWN DIES AT THE AGE OF 73

Singer James Brown, the self-proclaimed Godfather of Soul, who billed himself as
the hardest working man in show business, died on Monday at age 73, his manager
said.

Brown died at 1:45 a.m. (0645 GMT) at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta
after being admitted there on Saturday for treatment of severe pneumonia, his
manager, Frank Copsidas, said. Charles Bobbit, Brown's longtime friend and
personal manager, was at his side, he said.

The singer, also known as Mr. Dynamite, is credited with bringing the word funk
into mainstream musical vernacular and influencing a new generation of black
music.