Joe Tex insultingly name-checked James Brown in a song on Checker Records, and James Brown responded by shooting up a Joe Tex live show with a shotgun — nearly killing Otis Redding, who was opening.

Popular murder ballads “Frankie and Johnnie” and “Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons” were coincidentally each about murders in St. Louis, in 1899 and 1895 respectively.

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