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FINAL PERFORMANCE

James Brown lay in state in Augusta GA yesterday.

The last time we could see him.

Beloved former band members like Bootsy Collins and Bobby Byrd were there, as was Danny Ray, Mr. Brown’s announcer since the late 1950s, whose job description included the “cape routine”: covering Mr. Brown as he collapsed on-stage in mock exhaustion, only to throw off the cape and begin another song.

He won't be coming back to begin another song.