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Rick James ( born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr .; February 1, 1948August 6, 2004 ) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for being one of the popularizers of funk music in the late 1970s and early 1980s thanks to million-selling hits such as " You and I " ( 1978 ), " Give It to Me Baby " ( 1981 ) and " Super Freak " ( 1981 ), the latter song crossing him over to pop audiences and selling over three million copies, later contributing to the success of rapper MC Hammer's " U Can't Touch This " ( 1990 ), which James sued to be credited for.
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Irish traditional music stylists include John and Pip Murphy, Noel Battle, Austin Berry, James Conway, Andy Irvine, Mick Kinsella, Brendan Power, Joel Bernstein, Don Meade, Paul Moran, Tom Byrne and Rick Epping.
Furthermore in the Director's Cut police officer Gaff ( played by Edward James Olmos ) leaves Rick Deckard an origami Unicorn a day after Rick dreamed of one.
Purveyors of the traditional approach include organists and pianists such as Dennis James, Rick Friend, Chris Elliott, Dennis Scott, Clark Wilson and Jim Riggs.
Voyager was designed by Star Trek: Voyager production designer Richard D. James and illustrator Rick Sternbach.
The video featured DiFiore and McNeal competing in a cooking competition, judged by Rick James, Phyllis Diller and Jeff Smith, and was noted by Billboard as " continuing the fresh, witty, and downright fun style seen in the " Short Skirt " video ".
Earlier, such videos had been rare: according to MTV, this was because it initially conceived itself as a rock-music-oriented channel, although musician Rick James was outspoken in his criticism of the cable channel, claiming in 1983 that MTV's refusal to air the music video for his song " Super Freak " and clips by other African-American performers was " blatant racism ".
He also wrote and produced a tribute to surf music entitled Surfonic Water Revival, which featured performances by Phil Keaggy, Smalltown Poets, Chuck Girard, Paul Johnson, Havalina Rail Co., Rick Altizer, Plumb, The Supertones, All Star United, Skillet, Silage, Rebecca St. James, The Insyderz, and others.
In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).
In 1981 many of the stars of the show, Catherine Bach, James Best, Sorrell Booke, and Rick Hurst visited Hazard, Kentucky during the Black Gold Festival.
In the film credits they are simply identified as " Goatee ", based on Michael Schwerner, played by Geoffrey Nauffts ; " Passenger ", based on Andrew Goodman, played by Rick Zieff ; and " Black Passenger ", based on James Chaney, played by Christopher White.
The Mynah Birds were set to record an album for Motown Records when their singer Ricky James Matthews ( later known as Rick James ) was tracked down and arrested by the U. S. Navy for being AWOL.
The band initially completed the rhythm section with bassist Bruce Palmer, who previously played with Young in the short-lived Mynah Birds ( fronted by a young Rick James ) and with both Young and Stills in Buffalo Springfield.
Whatever the true reason, Palmer was forced out of the band, and, at Rick James ' recommendation, nineteen-year-old Motown bassist Greg Reeves replaced him.
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Rick Wakeman was born on 18 May 1949 in the west London suburb of Northolt to Cyril Frank and Mildred Helen Wakeman.
She has one elder brother, Rick ( born 1955 ), and two younger sisters, Dedee Pfeiffer, a television and film actress, and Lori Pfeiffer ( born 1965 ).
* Slick Rick ( Richard Walters )-hip-hop musician, born in Wimbledon and moved to The Bronx, New York
* Cardiak ( born 1988 ), music producer for 50 Cent, Rick Ross, Fabolous, Meek Mill and Lloyd Banks.
* Rick Cerone ( born 1954 ), former Yankee catcher who played for eight major league baseball teams, and was part of the New York Yankees for seven years.
* Rick Cerone ( born 1954 ), former MLB catcher who played most of his career with the New York Yankees
Rick Bonnell, a National Basketball Association writer for the Charlotte Observer, was born and raised in the Village of South Corning.
The couple hosted Cheney at a private political fundraiser for Republican Senator Rick Santorum who was up for reelection in 2006 against former state treasurer Bob Casey, Jr. who was born and raised in Scranton, a city just north of Jackson Township.
* Rick Hardcastle ( born 1956 )-outgoing member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 68
* Rick Allen ( organist ) ( born c. 1940 ), Grammy nominated blues, rock and R & B organist and pianist
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