One day in 1997, James Brown proposed to talk show host Rolonda Watts -- live on the air. Her reply? "We're going to continue this discussion on the phone later, James..."
[David Brackett, author of Interpreting Popular Music, once observed that various parts of James Brown's "Superbad" relate to one another by a ratio of 0.618 to 1 -- the mathematical proportions of the so-called Golden Section.]
Sources
Harpers, July 2000
