Not sure if I should put this in Film/TV instead...
VH1 is premiering a documentary tomorrow night, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, about a JB concert the night MLK was killed. There were questions if he should still perform, but he did, and the concert was aired live on Boston television, with authorities urging people to stay home and watch it. Boston, unlike other major cities, did not have any rioting that night, and it's because of the broadcast of the concert.
I saw the filmmaker on Tavis Smiley's show, and it sounds really good.
I came across this in a review:
VH1 is premiering a documentary tomorrow night, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, about a JB concert the night MLK was killed. There were questions if he should still perform, but he did, and the concert was aired live on Boston television, with authorities urging people to stay home and watch it. Boston, unlike other major cities, did not have any rioting that night, and it's because of the broadcast of the concert.
I saw the filmmaker on Tavis Smiley's show, and it sounds really good.
I came across this in a review:
This program tells that story, with video that is sometimes...bizarro, like when we hear WGBH's upper-crust Brahmin announcer telling viewers to stay tuned for "the Negro singer Jimmy Brown."
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