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Speaker 1: M mission with James and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Actually the gentleman that gives us musical on this day information,

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Speaker 2: But I've got some sort of musical information that's not

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Speaker 2: related to this day.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's a little.

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Speaker 1: Okay to go with me on this.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 1: There's a new documentary about Rick James. You know Rick James.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, girl.

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Speaker 1: This new documentary has been made by what's his first name?

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Speaker 2: By Gordy Gordy's his surname Barry. No, it's Barry Gordy's son.

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Speaker 2: Berry Gordy was the original Motown found.

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Speaker 3: He's dead now, but he's discovered. Michael Jackson Supreme.

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Speaker 2: His eldest son, has made this documentary about Rick James.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting that Rick james diary.

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Speaker 1: This isn't then interesting bit, but sad.

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Speaker 2: He died at the age of fifty six in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and four from cardiac and pulmary failure.

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Speaker 1: Nine different drugs in his system.

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Speaker 3: How he liked the drugs when.

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Speaker 1: He was younger.

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Speaker 3: He was in trouble too with the Laura bit.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you this.

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Speaker 2: When he was younger, He's from New York, but he

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Speaker 2: fled to Toronto to escape the Navy. He went by

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Speaker 2: the name Ricky Matthews and joined a sixties band with

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Speaker 2: Neil Young called the Minor Birds. Then their manager reported

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Speaker 2: him to the military for desertion and.

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Speaker 1: He had to go to prison for a year. Wow,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the support.

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Speaker 3: The Minor Birds went on to become the Birds too.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure because they became Major Birds.

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Speaker 3: I'm not bowguarding your information. He I'm just joining him. Well.

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Speaker 2: When he then started up his own band, he said

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Speaker 2: that you had to have the same hair as him,

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Speaker 2: so they all had to get braids. But this is

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Speaker 2: the bit that I find most interesting and hilarious. So

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Speaker 2: he wanted He felt that they weren't promoting him. He

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Speaker 2: was disappointed with his sales for his nineteen eighty two

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Speaker 2: album Thrown Down and It's Accompanying Tour, So he marched

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Speaker 2: into the offices of the then Motown president Jay Laska

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Speaker 2: to deliver his new LP.

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Speaker 1: And this is his sales pitch. This is what it says.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 2: He proceeded to pour coke, as in the drug coke,

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Speaker 2: all over a Laskar's desk.

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Speaker 1: He snorted it.

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Speaker 2: He jumped on top of the desk, took out his penis,

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Speaker 2: shoved in Laskar's face and said sell my goddamn record

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Speaker 2: the minute.

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Speaker 1: He left the room.

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Speaker 3: Please.

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Speaker 1: This is the words Laskar said Lionel Richie.

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Speaker 2: So all of Motown's muscle was put behind Lionel Richie

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Speaker 2: and Rick James was never promoted again.

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Speaker 3: So it wasn't for Ricky Ricky, Ricky's dick Linel wouldn't exist.

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Speaker 1: Maybe, who knows.

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Speaker 2: Was it making the mess on the desk, was it

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Speaker 2: the penis in the face, was it not saying please?

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Speaker 1: Who knows, But Lionel Richie's got a lot to be

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Speaker 1: thankful for.

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Speaker 3: I'll remember that for contract negotiation times. How you do it?

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's