Prince and David Bowie showed us another way to live

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2. LA Times: Prince, Michael Jackson, and James Brown on stage together was a gift we didn't deserve

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Prince, Michael Jackson, and James Brown on stage together was a gift we didn't deserve

By Dexter Thomas
April 21, 2016, 2:08 p.m.

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My favorite Prince memory actually came in college, when I found a grainy video of a 1983 James Brown concert where the Godfather of Soul invited Michael Jackson on stage, who then invited Prince. What results is a brief flash of black divinity, even if the people in the room didn’t realize it at the time.

James Brown clearly respected Michael Jackson as a musician, and took no small amount of pride in being his musical mentor. So when Michael goes up and whispers in James Brown’s ear, James trusts him. He addresses the crowd: “give him a round of applause, because he just insisted that I bring up Prince!”