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"James Brown on his knees at the Apollo, Iggy picking a fight onstage with the Ann Arbour Hell's Angels, The Sex Pistols sailing by Buckingham Palace blasting "God Save the Queen;" none of them a fraction as bad-ass as the firebrand godfather of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti. As dangerous as many musicians posit themselves to be, few are peers with genuine brigands and outlaws. Fewer still are considered enemies of the state. Perhaps none are deemed so dangerous that they faced torture and attempted assassination at the hands of their own government - except Fela. "