http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_en_mu/obit_brown

James Brown 'The Godfather Of Soul', died early this morning in Atlanta, 1:45 am. He was 73. What a bummer, though, to die on Christmas Day.

I'll always remember him for showing up in Rocky IV at the Apollo Creed-Ivan Drago fight, playing Living In America. According to Wikipedia, that was the (major) debut of that song.