James Brown may have been the hardest working man in showbusiness, the most influential man in pop music and a minor star of Rocky IV, but it also seems as if James Brown might have been something else in his lifetime – a bit of a swordsman.

It’s been over two months since James Brown passed away, and yet his lifeless corpse has seen more legal trouble than an army of zombie Anna Nicole Smiths. Just days after it was announced that he was all set to be buried, James Brown’s carcass has been at the centre of a huge DNA row – apparently all kinds of people are coming forward saying that James Brown knocked them up and they want to get their hands on some dead soul-brother inheritance. Happily, James Brown’s DNA dispute has been fixed, and now he really is ready to be buried. Unless something else happens in the meantime. And, let’s face it, it will.