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Fans sign a poster of James Brown outside B.B. King's Blues Club and Grill in New York, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2006, after word spread that the legendary soul singer had died of heart failure from pneumonia on Christmas day. Brown told friends that he still wanted to perform at the club on New Year's Eve in spite of being ill and in the hospital, but Brown's heart gave out before he could make it there.

(Photo: AP Photo/Kathy Willens)