Why Jagger's brought the nastiest man in pop back to life - but is Mick's A 25m biopic of wife-beating drug-addled James Brown a whitewash? Godfather of Soul: James Brown has been brought back to life through a feature film which has been eight years in the making By the end of his extraordinary life, he had beaten his wife with a lead pipe, charged at repair men with steak knives and fathered so many children that even he couldn't keep track in his drug-befuddled mind. His later years became mired in such ugly controversy that it's easy to forget James Brown was one of the most influential performers in pop music history.
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