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Rick James: Glow (Motown)/Mary Jane Girls: Only Four You (Gordy)

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 street-savvy "Super Freak" persona into a larger-than-life punk-funk fusion.

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