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The body of the late soul star James Brown is to be taken through New York’s Harlem in a horse-drawn carriage before lying in state at the Apollo Theater.

A close friend of Brown, civil rights leader Al Sharpton, described the occasion as “a royal day in Harlem”.

His casket will then travel to his hometown of Augusta, Georgia, for a public funeral on Saturday.

The “Godfather of Soul“, who was 73, died of heart failure brought on by pneumonia in Atlanta on Monday.

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