Editing James Brown (section)

===Death===
Brown died at approximately 1:45&nbsp;a.m. [[Eastern Time Zone|EST]] (06:45 [[UTC]])<ref name="jbbirthname" /> on Christmas Day 2006, at age 73, from [[congestive heart failure]], resulting from complications of pneumonia. Bobbit was at his bedside<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/25/james.brown.obit.ap/index.html "Soul 'godfather' James Brown dies"] (December 25, 2006). CNN Entertainment News. Retrieved January 9, 2007. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070121025721/http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/25/james.brown.obit.ap/index.html |date=January 21, 2007 }}</ref> and later reported that Brown stuttered, "I'm going away tonight", then took three long, quiet breaths and fell asleep before dying.<ref name="cnnbio">[http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/25/obit.brown/index.html "James Brown, the 'Godfather of Soul,' dies at 73"] (December 25, 2006). CNN Entertainment News. Retrieved January 5, 2007. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218024125/http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/25/obit.brown/index.html |date=December 18, 2008 }}</ref>

Then-President [[George W. Bush]] released a statement calling the musician "an American original."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/12/25/bush-honors-godfather-of-soul/|title=Bush honors 'Godfather of Soul'|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 25, 2006|access-date=September 3, 2024}}</ref>

In February 2019, an investigation by [[CNN]] and other journalists led to suggestions that Brown had been murdered.<ref name="part3" /><ref name="part1" /><ref name="part2" /><ref>{{Cite news|first=Ben|last=Beaumont-Thomas|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/06/james-brown-death-investigate-murder-claims|title=Call to investigate James Brown's death after murder claims|newspaper=The Guardian|date=February 6, 2019|access-date=May 22, 2018|archive-date=February 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190206141153/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/06/james-brown-death-investigate-murder-claims|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/us/james-brown-death-questions/index.html |first=Thomas |last=Lake |title=CNN investigation raises questions about the deaths of James Brown and his third wife, Adrienne |work=CNN |date=February 5, 2019 |access-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413090048/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/us/james-brown-death-questions/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>