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I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

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James Brown
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 3
Died: 2006
Died: December 25
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