Chuck Brown: Chuck Brown's musical impact: Deep into Washington, and beyond

Suddenly Wednesday evening, it was the '70s all over again on the streets of Washington — and the '80s, and every decade since, each era evoked by another of Chuck Brown's songs, the go-go anthems of the city blazing out of the jukebox at Ben's ChiliWASHINGTON — Chuck Brown, who styled a unique brand of funk music as a singer, guitarist and songwriter known as the “godfather of go-go,” has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75. Brown died Wednesday at Johns

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