Eddie Murphy actually managed to score a hit with his 1985 single How Could It Be--the Rick James-produced song Party All the Time peaked at number two on the Billboard charts.

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In April, the Rick James estate filed a class action lawsuit against Universal, making the same argument as FBT: that artists should get a 50% cut of sales from digital music.

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Manzarek is survived by his brothers Rick and James, his wife Dorothy, his son Pablo, and three grandchildren.

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Second, the four of us each reached into our networks to solicit names from other savvy insiders (special thanks to president of the James Beard Foundation Susan Ungaro, Rick Tramonto, Thomas Keller and Anthony Giglio, among many others).

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The relevant email was sent to Rick Piltz, a UCAR employee at the time, and copied to Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University, James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the late Steven Schneider, Stanford University, and several other very prominent climate scientists.

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