I can’t believe it. It’s one of those moments when someone great dies and you’re not sure how to react. I didn’t know him, I only saw him once (at Glastonbury), and I can’t say I was obsessed with him, but it’s so sad when something like this happens. In spite of all his problems, all his arrests, all his misdemeanors, he was a fantastic performer and he made a number of seminal soul classics. I don’t like the word “classics” as such, but in this case it fits aptly.

He was still on stage into his seventies. He epitomised the word “performer”. What a tragic loss.

Techno’ tags: James Brown Dies