Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Star Time is a 1991 71-track, 4-CD box set by James Brown. Its contents span most of the length of his career up to the time of its release, starting in 1956 with his first hit record, \"Please, Please, Please\", and ending with \"Unity\", his 1984 collaboration with Afrika Bambaataa. Writing in 2007, Robert Christgau described it as \"the finest box set ever released... as essential a package as the biz has ever hawked, not just because it's James Brown, but because compilers Cliff White and Harry Weinger invested so much care and knowledge in it.\" Its title comes from the question Brown's announcer would ask concert audiences, as heard on the album Live at the Apollo: \"Are you ready for star time?\"Star Time's liner notes, written by Cliff White, Harry Weinger, Nelson George, Alan Leeds, and Brown himself, won a 1991 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes. The notes also include a discography and a one-page comic by Mary Fleener, a visual interpretation of the song \"I Got You (I Feel Good).\"In 2003, the album was ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was the second-highest ranking box set on the list."@en }
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- Star_Time abstract "Star Time is a 1991 71-track, 4-CD box set by James Brown. Its contents span most of the length of his career up to the time of its release, starting in 1956 with his first hit record, \"Please, Please, Please\", and ending with \"Unity\", his 1984 collaboration with Afrika Bambaataa. Writing in 2007, Robert Christgau described it as \"the finest box set ever released... as essential a package as the biz has ever hawked, not just because it's James Brown, but because compilers Cliff White and Harry Weinger invested so much care and knowledge in it.\" Its title comes from the question Brown's announcer would ask concert audiences, as heard on the album Live at the Apollo: \"Are you ready for star time?\"Star Time's liner notes, written by Cliff White, Harry Weinger, Nelson George, Alan Leeds, and Brown himself, won a 1991 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes. The notes also include a discography and a one-page comic by Mary Fleener, a visual interpretation of the song \"I Got You (I Feel Good).\"In 2003, the album was ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was the second-highest ranking box set on the list.".