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STONE CITY BURNS

Rick James wears funny clothes, has long and braided hair, smokes dope onstage and sings about kinky girls—“the kind of girls you read about in new wave magazines”— and how he’d like to taste them. He is black, and he is also Motown Records’ first official superstar of the 80’s.

December 1, 1981
Dave DiMartino

STONE CITY BURNS

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