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This Day in Rock History - Sept. 24th

1988: It began with the singer waving a gun around in an office building. It ended after a one-hour, two-state car chase when police shoot out the two front tires of the singer’s pickup truck.

It was on this day that James Brown, one time “hardest working man in show business,” is carted off to jail and charged assault, resisting arrest, illegal possession of a firearm and (surprise, surprise) drugs.

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