Requiescent in pace, Richard

Richard Pryor died of a heart attack today. When I was a teenager my friend Greg Holloway used to lend me his albums (which, apparently, were too filthy to play at home). Pryor was hugely funny, irreverant, ground breaking... until his health did him in. He had passion and a passion for self-destruction. I hope he finds the peace that eluded him in life.

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