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Super Freak
Peter Benjaminson
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Description for Super Freak
Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGQ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Few American superstar stories are richer, wilder, or more excessive than Rick James’s. He played in a band with Neil Young, spent years in jail, produced his first album (which was then picked up by Motown) with money from shadowy sources, crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop star of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, displayed an outrageously sex and drug-filled lifestyle, was tried and found guilty of assaulting and imprisoning a young woman, went on ... Read more
Few American superstar stories are richer, wilder, or more excessive than Rick James’s. He played in a band with Neil Young, spent years in jail, produced his first album (which was then picked up by Motown) with money from shadowy sources, crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop star of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, displayed an outrageously sex and drug-filled lifestyle, was tried and found guilty of assaulting and imprisoning a young woman, went on ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Chicago Review Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781613749579
SKU
V9781613749579
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99-50
About Peter Benjaminson
Peter Benjaminson is the author of Death in the Afternoon: America's Newspaper Giants Struggle for Survival, Secret Police: Inside the New York City Department of Investigation, and The Story of Motown, and is the coathor of Investigative Reporting. He is a former reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Detroit Free Press. He lives in New York City.
Reviews for Super Freak
"An unapologetic, no-holds-barred biography of a flamboyant and controversial artist." Booklist Online "Benjaminson acts as a gifted stenographer laying the facts out for readers to come to their own conclusions without trying to push one verdict or the other." Passions of the Weiss "Rick James was one of the biggest musical stars of the 1980s, and his life was a ... Read more