Happy Birthday Elvis!

Happy Birthday to one of Rick James’ inspirations, “The King,” Elvis Presley.

“[Rick] fused these three strains - jazz, R&B, and funk—into a sound of his own. Like other idiosyncratic geniuses-from Louis Jordan to Jackie Wilson, from Elvis Presley to Chubby Checker...”

-GLOW: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RICK JAMES 

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