"Stuff you'd never see" - behind-the-scenes shots by Columbia Records' official
photographer
Soul stirrers Cassius Clay, left, and Sam Cooke, New York, March 1964
Boxer Cassius Clay with soul man Sam Cooke, New York City, March 1964
Don Hunstein © 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
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Muhammad Ali a.k.a. Cassius Clay, NYC, 1963
Along with the
braggadocio of his boasts and rhymes, Cassius Clay brought a balletic
elegance to the boxing ring. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,"
was how he described his moves.
Muhammad Ali's simultaneous defiance of
gravity and convention, coupled with his invisible right and left hooks
and relentless taunts gave credence to his claim, "I Am The Greatest!"
On his Columbia Records album, Cassius Clay laid out, in graphic detail,
a blow-by-blow description of his future bout with Sonny Liston. The
album climaxed with "Round 8: The Knockout." In this photographic
portrait, by Hank Parker, of Cassius Clay in formal black tails in
August 1963, the future champ holds out a defiant and prescient 8
fingers, a reminder to the world that "knockout n 8" rhymes with "I Am
The Greatest!"
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