Rick James
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Rick James: The Punk Funk Of Rick James
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 12 September 1978
Rick's style has been dubbed Punk Funk in some quarters. He himself agrees the term might be apt as it signifies the rebellious aspect of ...
Profile by Vernon Gibbs, The Village Voice, 9 October 1978
HOT ON THE gold certification of his first single, 'You and I', Rick James has been going around making the preposterous claim that he is ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, November 1979
"TO ME, a punk is someone who says what's on his mind and who doesn't take no shit!" So says Rick James, one of our ...
Rick James' Case Of Life Or Death
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 October 1980
Our Punk Funk hero has a new perspective on life following his recent hospitalisation. He's had to readjust his lifestyle as it became a case ...
Rick James: Garden Of Love (Motown)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 October 1980
'Big Time'; 'Don't Give Up On Love'; 'Island Lady'; 'Gettin' It On'; 'Summer Love'; 'Mary-Go-Round'; 'Gettin' It On (In The Sunshine) Reprise' ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1981
While Rick James & all his Women laugh... ...
Rick James: Blowing Out Tinsel Town
Interview by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 10 April 1982
Not So Long Ago:THERE WAS a time when nearly everybody in the world owned a Motown record. Motown was like a baby's security blanket, warm, ...
Touring Talent Sacrifices Luxury For Livelihood
Report by Vernon Gibbs, Billboard, 5 June 1982
Revert To '60s Packaging ...
Rick James: Sex, Street Smarts and Success
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 24 June 1982
SAUSALITO, CA — Rick James Lies sleeping on the plush burgundy velvet seat in the back of the long black limousine. It has been forty-eight ...
Rick James, Ray Parker Jr.: Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 August 1982
RICK JAMES AND THE FUNK CAPADES ...
Rick James: Throwin' Down (Gordy)
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, September 1982
HE HAS A VOICE that's like a Looney Tunes imitation of Edward G. Robinson. His priorities (or those of the character he's created) are getting ...
Why MTV Is Shaking the Music Industry
Report and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 1983
HUEY LEWIS, leader of the Marin County-based Huey Lewis and the News, loves MTV: "Everywhere I go," he says in a promo spot on the ...
Report and Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 30 July 1983
25 years on the dancefloor, Tamla Motown is still the black music label. In the '60s, their motto was 'The Sound Of Young America' — then hard ...
Rick James: Cold Blooded (Motown)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 24 September 1983
IN THE freak funk stakes, high-livin’ devil-may-care Rick James rates as a bit of a clown. As you’ll know if you caught his Rockpalast TV ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Musician, 1 November 1983
THE FOUR women stood in the semi-dark recording studio. "Okay, let's go," said the producer. ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 14 April 1984
BARNEY HOSKYNS dials a late night dateline to RICK JAMES at Motown's LA offices. ...
Rick James: Reflections (Motown)
Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 15 September 1984
ACCEPTING THE press stereotype of Rick James as a total prat whose releases served only as excuses for another dig, I completely ignored the man ...
Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 1 June 1985
POOR RICK has never been taken very seriously - a self-obsessed prima-donna of sophistifunk, as lascivious as Richard Pryor’s ear-screwing monkey. But the slick Dick ...
Rick James: Glow (Motown)/Mary Jane Girls: Only Four You (Gordy)
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, August 1985
TO CROSSOVER or not to crossover, that is the question. Just a few short years ago, it looked like Buffalo-born Rick James would parlay his ...
Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 15 August 1985
OH, SLICK RICK, you can trade your beads for a hennaed perm, but they still won't put you on MTV. As Dylan said of George ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Vibe, April 1994
While Rick James was ruling the charts with hits like 'Super Freak' and 'Give It To Me Baby', he was descending into the drug addiction ...
Review and Interview by Andria Lisle, MOJO, September 2002
CATEGORISING RICK James isn't as easy as one might think. Sure, he's the bad boy of black pop, a groove-minded funkster with a nasty attitude, ...
Obituary by Andria Lisle, MOJO, October 2004
Rick James died on August 6, after last month's MOJO went to press. Andria Lisle pays belated tribute. ...
see also Mary Jane Girls, The
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