30 Jul When James Brown embarrassed Mick Jagger

Writing in this week’s New Yorker, editor David Remnick calls the new biopic, Get On Up, “the second-best film ever made about James Brown.”

The best? That would be this grainy, 18-minute YouTube clip of Brown’s October, 1964, appearance at the T.A.M.I. (Teenage Awards Music International) show in Santa Monica. Four nervous Rolling Stones were waiting in the wings, and Brown, pissed at being scheduled to play before them, was determined to show them up.

Keith Richards later described the decision to play after Brown the biggest mistake of the band’s career.

There’s lots more rich detail about this amazing concert in Remnick’s piece.