POP/ROCK - Dec. 25, 1990

Back on Stage: The hardest-working man in show business is working in show business again. Soul singer James Brown scheduled a Christmas Day performance for troops at Ft. Jackson, S.C., in his first show since he was sent to prison two years ago for leading police on chase across two states. Community leaders organized the show to entertain nearly 10,000 training soldiers whose regular holiday leaves were canceled because of the Middle East crisis. Brown is living in a halfway house.