James Sullivan writes for AOL Music's Spinner.com. He's a Boston Globe contributor and former pop music/pop culture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the author of books on James Brown ("The Hardest Working Man") and blue jeans ("Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon") and has written for Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and many other publications.

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