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Glow by Rick James

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[Atria]Best known for his 1980s hit songs Super Freak, Give it to Me Baby, and Mary Jane, the late singer and funk music pioneer Rick...

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Best known for his 1980s hit songs Super Freak, Give it to Me Baby, and Mary Jane, the late singer and funk music pioneer Rick James collaborated with acclaimed music biographer David Ritz in this posthumously published, no-holds-barred memoir of a rock stars life and soul.

He was the nephew of Temptations singer Melvin Franklin; a boy who watched and listened, mesmerized from underneath cocktail tables at the shows of Etta James and Miles Davis. He was a vagrant hippie who wandered to Toronto, where he ended up playing with Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, and he became a household name in the 1980s with his hit song Super Freak. Later in life, he was a bad boy who got caught up in drug smuggling and ended up in prison. But since his passing in August 2004, Rick James has remained a legendary icon whose name is nearly synonymous with funk musicand who popularized the genre, creating a lasting influence on pop artists from Prince to J

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