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Glow : The Autobiography of Rick James by Rick James with David Ritz is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Glow : The Autobiography of Rick James about?
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 star's 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 music—and who popularized the genre, creating a lasting influence on pop artists from Prince to Jay-Z to Snoop Dogg, among countless others. In Glow , Rick James and acclaimed music biographer David Ritz collaborated to write a no-holds-barred memoir about the boy and the man who became a music superstar in America's disco age. It tells of
Who reads Glow : The Autobiography of Rick James?
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Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Rick James with David Ritz
- Publisher
- New York: Atria Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781476764146
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (192 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14