James Brown

James Brown dies in Atlanta, Georgia at age 73.

Brown marries Tomi Rae Hynie, one of his backing singers.

Receives a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Releases 'Living in America', a major hit song featured in 'Rocky IV'.

Divorces his second wife, Adrienne Rodriguez.

His son, Teddy Brown, dies in a car accident.

Releases the album 'The Payback', a funk classic.

Performs at the Boston Garden the day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

Releases 'Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud', an anthem of the Black Power movement.

Marries his second wife, Deidre Jenkins.

Releases 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag', a breakthrough hit.

Releases 'Live at the Apollo', a highly successful live album.

Marries his first wife, Velma Warren.

Joins the Gospel Starlighters, a gospel group that later evolves into The Famous Flames.

Grew up in extreme poverty in Elko, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia.

James Joseph Brown Jr. is born in Barnwell, South Carolina.