I'm fresh off a trip to New York City, where I stayed just around the corner from Harlem's famed Apollo Theater.
The Apollo's played host to plenty of big names over the years, but possibly its most famous act was James Brown, on the night he recorded his phenomenal, game-changing album, Live at the Apollo (1962) - called the "most apocalyptic non-gospel album ever recorded" by Peter Guralnick, and "almost certainly the greatest live album ever" by Peter Shapiro, author of the Rough Guide to Soul and R&B.
This clip isn't from the Apollo, but it's a taste of Brown's early live vibe.
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