Yeah, but James Brown had a genuinely innovative sound which changed musical history and a proud reputation for being outspoken politically in a time when it would have been much easier not to. A fair few criminal charges against Brown were trumped up and falsified to make him seem like the devil incarnate to white America, although it's fair to say that he was an arrogant wanker with a nasty streak.
James Blunt, on the other hand, is a talentless nasal cuntstick.