HIGHLIGHTS OF RICK JAMES' POSTHUMOUSLY RELEASED AUTOBIOGRAPHY "GLOW" SHARES FREAKY SECRETS

Our weekend just got Super Freak-y thanks to the folks over at RollingStone.com as the just released the highlights from Rick James’ new autobiography, Glow.

And they’re epic......

1. Among James’ hookups: head-spinning Exorcist star Linda Blair, supermodel Iman, Dukes of Hazzard star Catherine Bach and Jan Gaye (wife of Marvin).

2. Before breaking into music, James  made cash smuggling drugs from India and Colombia.

3. One night, James encountered Jim Morrison on the floor of Stephen Stills’ home “stoned as a (expletive).” James recalls that Morrison watched blood drip from his wrist, “saying things like, ‘Isn’t the blood beautiful? Isn’t that the deepest red you’ve ever seen?’” James awakened Stills who said, “Oh (expletive), he’s doing it again.”

4. James had done so much cocaine backstage before making his TV debut on American Bandstand that his nose started running profusely. “I started sniffing and wiping myself until it had to be obvious to Dick Clark and a million viewers what was really going on.”

5. James claims Prince stole his stage moves (!) and that bringing Prince on tour was not cool. “My band was a bunch of friendly down-home brothas loved by everyone. His band was a bunch of snobs who never bothered to acknowledge my guys.”

6. Salvador Dali drew a sketch of James on a cocktail napkin at a dinner party in Hawaii. Only problem? James smoked a joint the next morning and went swimming in the shorts that contained the napkin.

7. James’ rehab buddy?  Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. James used to take Tyler for piggyback rides.

8. After James’ mother died, he went off the rails. “There was nothing to keep me from descending into the lowest level of hell. That meant orgies. That meant sadomasochism. That even meant bestiality.”

Told you they were epic…

(James died of a heart attack at age 56 in 2004, but the book, written with David Ritz, was finished posthumously.)

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