Friends and family of the late soul James Brown have used what would have been his 74th birthday to protest over derogatory language in music.
Campaigner the Rev Al Sharpton led a rally of 400 people through New York to the offices of major music labels Sony, Warner, Universal and Time Warner. The rally called for an industry curb on sexist and racist insults in music.
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Orbis non sufficit
'I'd sit alone and watch your light,
My only friend through teenage nights,
And everything I had to know, I heard it on my radio'