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Before the Super Freak: The Untold Origins of Rick James

Mynah Birds, summer 1965, L-R: Bruce Palmer, Rick James, Rickman Mason, John Taylor and Tom Morgan (credit: Tom Morgan/Rickman Mason)

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Before the Super Freak: The Untold Origins of Rick James

thestrangebrew January 20, 2026

Before ‘Super Freak’ took over the world, Rick James was a Motown misfit brushing shoulders with Smokey Robinson,...