James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti

By Adam Stanhope in Music, Video Clips on May 1, 2008 at 7:59 am

I was fascinated by this collaborative performance of “Man’s World.” I guess I’m not the only one, because the YouTube video has 3+ million views on it. The performance must have been fairly recent, because both of them look like the reanimated dead. I waited in line for a day in 1988 to see Mao’s pickled corpse in Tiananmen Square and frankly he looked like he was in better shape after 12 years under glass than these two look under the stage lights. An electrifying performance, regardless! YouTube.

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SenorMysterioso
May 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am
That was great, I want more. I didnt think they looked bad at all
Adam Stanhope
May 1st, 2008 at 8:22 am
You didn’t? Does that mean that Mao was STILL ALIVE when I saw him?!
SenorMysterioso
May 1st, 2008 at 8:52 am
You know, maybe he was
hark
May 1st, 2008 at 9:29 am
the fat man definitely looked like a lifeless piece of wax, but James was still puttin it out huge, what a unit
* Miss Universe
May 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
http://stardoms.webs.com/music.htm

We offered this link last week – with a page full of these videos

A link from this site could have done wonders for us
medussa
May 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
That gave me the shivers. What a great performance. When? Where?
Edward
May 1st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Stunning. In a single performance, two musical universes collide and entwine and enthrall. Great Art.
CheeseDuck
May 1st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Wow. Great performance..
Rudi
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 am
Too bad Pavarotti was constantly looking into the teleprompter (glass in front of him).
SQRL
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I saw these two at the Pavarotti and Friends open air concert in Modena in 2002- I think this is it!
Shay
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 am
I’ve been forever looking for that Grammy(?) performance where Aretha Franklin stepped in for Pavarotti to do Ave Maria. He had to cancel for health reasons. Anybody have it?
World's Most Beautiful Girl
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:05 am
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9ySU8y—tM

Here is her performance
Someone123
Nov 28th, 2010 at 4:34 am
Hark, a “lifeless piece of wax”?

Just so you know he gave this magnificent performance with pancreatic cancer, a few months before he died. You should thank him for letting us have it, although it must have been very hard for him.

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