Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 (1968)

Genre

rock concert

Country

United States

How it feels

A concert film of James Brown performing at the Boston Garden in 1968. The show was broadcast live on television the night after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated to help prevent unrest in the city.

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What happens

Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 is a concert film starring James Brown. Recorded at the Boston Garden by WGBH-TV the night after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., it was broadcast live in an effort to quell potential riots in the city. The recording circulated as a bootleg before it was officially released on DVD by Shout! Factory in 2008 as part of the box set I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the '60s. It received a stand-alone release in 2009. The concert was the subject of the 2008 PBS/VH-1 documentary The Night James Brown Saved Boston, directed by David Leaf and a chapter of Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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