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COMIN' HOME TO AFRICA ... If James Brown Don't Kill Us All!
Season 1 · Episode 9

COMIN' HOME TO AFRICA ... If James Brown Don't Kill Us All!

Stones Touring Party

December 11, 202445m 20sExplicit

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Show Notes

The music festival promoters hustle hard to secure a plane to Zaire. Finally on board, all the artists are nearly killed by James Brown and his oversized ego. Despite the high drama, the flight is a magical experience for all aboard when the musicians turn the plane into an epic jam session. This shared joy carries the crew through to Zaire. Upon arrival, they are greeted by the drums and voices of The Motherland. Meanwhile, fight promoters scramble to rearrange the weekend after Foreman’s cut and, in doing so, find out who President Mobutu really is.

 

LITERARY REFERENCES

“The Greatest, My Own Story”by Muhammad Ali (autobiography)

“By George” by George Foreman (autobiography)

“Hit Me, Fred” by Fred Wesley (autobiography) 

“LATIN NY” (Magazine, Issue No. 20, Nov 1974 Editor-in-Chief, Diane Weathers)

           Courtesy of Lola! Love

OTHER MEDIA

US State Department cables (available online in the US State Dept Archives and Wikileaks: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974KINSHA07638_b.html)

 

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Topics

MUHAMMAD ALIgeorge foremanmusic historyblack historyboxing historydon kinglloyd pricebill withersjames brownafrican historybelgian congoparty planefestival expresswhen we were kingsrumble in the jungleknife fight on a planefania all starscelia cruzbb kingfred wesleygodfather of soullynn goldsmithrock photographythe motherlandzairepresident mobutu