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Thanks to James Brown’s official YouTube channel, you can now watch a remastered and restored version of a historic concert. The channel prefaces the concert with these words:

On April 5th 1968, James Brown gave a free concert at The Boston Garden which became a thing of legend. Only 24 hours earlier civil rights activist Dr Martin Luther King had been assassinated resulting in widespread violence across the United States. The mayor of Boston was persuaded to let the concert go ahead and it was broadcast live across the city by WGBH-TV. Featuring inspiring speeches and legendary performances, James Brown’s concert is said to have contributed majorly to maintaining calm and peace throughout the city that night.

To learn more about the performance, see our separate post: James Brown Saves Boston After Martin Luther King’s Assassination, Calls for Peace Across America (1968)

The setlist, co*plete with time stamps, appears below:

00:00 Intro

01:57 If I Ruled The World

05:40 James Brown Speech

12:55 Tom Atkins Speech

17:45 Kevin White Speech

20:59 That’s Life

24:22 Kansas City

28:45 Soul Man (Bobby Byrd)

31:08 You’ve Got To Change Your Mind (feat. Bobby Byrd)

35:51 I’m In Love (Bobby Byrd)

38:22 Sweet Soul Music (Bobby Byrd)

40:23 Mustang Sally (Bobby Byrd)

43:36 Medley: It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World / Lost Someone / Bewildered

57:30 Tell Mama (Marva Whitney)

59:36 Check Yourself (Marva Whitney)

01:05:02 Chain Of Fools (Marva Whitney)

01:07:38 I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marva Whitney)

01:10:24 Maceo Parker co*edy Routine

01:20:20 Get It Together

01:27:30 There Was A Time

01:38:40 I Got The Feelin’

01:42:40 Try Me

01:45:35 Medley: Cold Sweat / Ride The Pony / Cold Sweat

01:57:20 Maybe The Last Time

02:01:32 I Got You (I Feel Good)

02:02:04 Please, Please, Please

02:04:34 I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)

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