The Rev. Al Sharpton remembers spotting his mentor, James Brown, for the first time backstage just before an early 1970s concert. Brown, in front of a mirror combing his spiked hair, urged the impressionable teenager to aim high.
Brown advised Sharpton not to "go for little things — go for the whole hog." Then Brown, grabbing a microphone, kept talking right up to when he put the microphone to his lips and sang.
The startled Sharpton realized he had followed his American idol on stage.
"I didn't know what to do so I started dancing," Sharpton recalled Monday in an interview. Later, he sobbed as he spoke at a news conference, shortly before leaving for Georgia to see Brown's daughters and offer help planning the funeral.
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