"I was sitting right there," says Mick Jagger, pointing at a row of seats in the famous first balcony at New York's Apollo Theater. He is remembering how, as a young fan back in England, he had worn out the grooves on his copy of James Brown's 1963 album, "Live at the Apollo." Then, he says, he watched from the balcony in 1964 as the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business performed his splits and spins and dropped to his knees begging and screaming "Please Please Please." Fifty years later, Mr. Jagger is back at the Apollo, speaking in the historic space where "Get On Up: The James Brown Story", which he co-produced with Brian Grazer...
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