Rick James. An excellent obit for Rick James where I learned that Prince was a protege. Interesting. Hey, I liked the guys music. What can I say? Obviously some people in London liked him too.

The tour went well; the plaudits, however, went to the support artist, a young singer named Prince, who in time was to realise more fully James’s ambition of reconciling funk with pop. Nonetheless, in 1981 James reached the peak of his career with the release of Street Songs, which featured Super Freak. The LP went double platinum and remained in the US album chart for more than a year.