UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 26: A statue of James Brown is draped with an American flag and flowers, in downtown Augusta, Georgia, Tuesday, December 26, 2006. Brown, the rhythm-and-blues singer known as the ``Godfather of Soul,'' died Christmas morning at an Atlanta hospital of congestive heart failure as a result of pneumonia, his agency Intrigue Music said. He was 73. (Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
