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Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo, Volume III Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo, Volume III Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo, Volume III is a live double album by James Brown released in 1971. As its subtitle suggests, it is Brown's third album recorded at the Apollo Theater, following the original "Live at the Apollo" (1963) and "Live at the Apollo, Volume II" (1968). After a triple album project recorded in France was cancelled because Brown had signed with a new label, Polydor , in 1971, Brown elected to do many of the same songs on a New York project . Unlike the