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Two-ton, black gravestone for Rick James put into place PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 08 August 2006
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The two-ton, jet-black gravestone for funk legend Rick James was hoisted into place last week, just in time for the second anniversary of his death Sunday. The Buffalo-born James lives on in his leather image from the 1981 hit album Street Songs, etched into stone in tight pants, jacket and guitar.
"Tasteful. Simple. Nice," said Molly Amigone, who runs the monuments division of Amigone Funeral Home. The album sold 3 million copies and made James a superstar.

His family chose the portrait and the words on the gravestone, lyrics to a song the Superfreak singer never released: "I've had it all/I've done it all/I've seen it all/It's all about love/God is love."

Older brother Carmen Sims said the monument shows the softer side of the man who once told an interviewer, "I wanted to be Rick James, wild man, party machine, lady slayer, and the cocaine told me I could."

The monument says, "I'm at peace," Sims said. James' ashes are interred at the site.

SOURCE:  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/4099119.html

 
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