R&B icon Curtis Mayfield died today (December 26, 1999) in Roswell, Georgia.

Mayfield had been in poor health for almost 10 years, after he was paralyzed from the neck down in 1990, when a lighting rig fell on him in New York City during a show.

Mayfield was just 48-years-old when he was struck by a falling light tower at the Martin Luther King music festival in Brooklyn. (continue reading RareSoul.com)...