HOME: Freaky Street.

AGE: Only his hairdresser knows for sure!

PROFESSION: Punky funker.

HOBBIES: Writin’ street songs, doing the super freak, finding stars to duet with (the more the merrier!), hanging out with the Mary Jane Girls, making funny signs with his hands, getting women to shake their bodies all over him.

LAST BOOK READ: Soul On Dry Ice by Adam Ant.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Waking up!

QUOTE: “They call me a faggot—me & all my women laugh at it!”

PROFILE: After stints in the Mynah Birds (featuring Neil Young and Bruce Palmer) and a federal prison for evading Vietnam, Rick changed his act—wore funny clothes, long & braided hair, smoked dope onstage, sang about kinky girls and how he’d like to taste them—and became Motown Records’ first official superstar of the ’80s.

BEER: Boy Howdy!