James Brown remembrance

In my years of covering music in the 1960s and 1970s for The Roanoke Times, James Brown was one of the more interesting and exuberant artists I met. He was a pleasant man who gave so much to a performance that no one could go away unsatisfied.
On one of the times I covered a concert featuring Brown, I had dinner with him at the nearby Hotel Roanoke and then rode in his limo to the civic center. The excitement of just arriving with Brown was enough to make anyone feel like the star.
He met with kids that night, stressed that he wanted them to stay in school, and then gave his usual performance--a wow always.
That night, we all danced in the aisles and on the seats, but no one moved as energetically as Brown.