Style is what remains once chaos put you down #11 (Fela Anikulapo Kuti, 15 October 1938 / 2 August 1997)

As noted after the WWII, in spite of everything there will always be music. Better late than never, decades after his international recognition and after having inspired numerous moments of pure joy and pure dance in Africa, Asia and Europe well before the notion of 'globalisation' exists in the mind of consumers and distributors, the muse of James Brown, and reciprocally influenced by James Brown, enters now, I am told, in the mainstream culture of the US, i.e. he is worthy of investment on Broadway. He was no rock, he was no roll, 'blackexploitation' was a needless revenge to him, the legend is hardly glamour though there was true blood, love and fights in his long, tiring and entire life of protest singer; he was a bad temper with charisma who bore and brought music in spite of everything we know. As NespressGeorges would say: 'What else?'.