He was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2016 and underwent treatment. “Always a fighter, Charles battled cancer with everything he had. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Charles Bradley,” the singer’s rep said in a statement. Ultimately the Screaming Eagle of Soul continues to soar, and despite all of the changes, the reasons to fall for Charles Bradley remain constant.Charles Bradley, the acclaimed soul singer and exuberant live performer who saw his career ascend late in life, died Saturday following a bout with stomach and liver cancer. Swaying love letter "Nobody But You", Motown lullaby "You Think I’m in Love" and the dreamy croon "Slow Love" offer some gentle relief, but Bradley really hits his stride when he turns the intensity up, sweat starts dripping from that furrowed brow and those mighty, impassioned bawls of agony are unleashed. The mood turns more badass on the funk freak out "Aint it a Sin", as Bradley indulges in a range of his favourite grunts, whoops and “huhs” and lets out righteous threats over swaggering licks stolen from a myriad of Blaxploitation soundtracks.
The bare intimacy builds to a climax of Hammond organs and brass howls, with Bradley recalling the death of mother and all those years of pain, and letting out the cry - “It took so long to realise/I can still hear her last goodbyes/And now all my days are filled with tears/Wish I could go back and change these years.”
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Bradley turns Ozzy’s stark, elegiac despair into a gospel slow jam full of pit-of-the-stomach heartache and tear-stained memories. “The records’ stand-out moment comes on the title-track, "Changes", a cover of Black Sabbath’s 1972 strung-out ballad. By the end of the take, everybody in the room was holding back tears.” - Daptone Records Charles was originally set to sing along to the track and film in Times Square but, in the editing room, director Eric Feigenbaum (Remedial Media) says he “kept coming back to the take of Charles looking straight at the camera, telling the story with his eyes and reacting in the moment to the song. Those emotions are what lead to the final cut of the intimate and spare video for the song. “It makes me think of my mother and the changes in my life since she passed away.” “I think about the lyrics very closely when I sing ‘Changes’ and get emotional,” notes Bradley. Previously only available as a Record Store Day 45, “Changes” will appear on the album and is now available digitally for the first time via iTunes. The album is named for his popular, “smoldering” (SPIN) cover of the Black Sabbath track. Dubbed “The Screaming Eagle of Soul,” the singer just announced his anticipated third album Changes, out Apon Daptone Records imprint Dunham Records.
“Soul singer Charles Bradley’s star has been on the rise since the release of his widely praised 2011 debut album No Time For Dreaming, and his ascent has continued long after the release of his triumphant second album, 2013’s Victim of Love. The title track of the album is a cover of the Black Sabbath song of the same name. Changes is the third album released by American soul singer Charles Bradley, released in 2016 on Daptone Records.
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