HOME: Prison Of Love.

AGE: Old enough to remember the birth of rock; young enough to be a sex machine.

PROFESSION: Soul Brother Number One; Minister of the New Super Heavy Funk.

HOBBIES: Preventing riots; coining outrageous titles for himself; carousing with Jake and Elwood; working up a cold sweat; remaking remakes of his hits; doing away with the musical bridge.

LAST BOOK READ: The Joy Of Funk. He wrote it.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Releasing umpteen versions of “Please., Please, Please,” releasing another song called “Please, Please,” and actually getting away with it.

QUOTE: “Take a look at those cakes!!'

PROFILE: Beginning at the appropriately-titled King records, our hero made his legend as the King of Soul Music, mixing gospel, the blues and Afro-rhythms, inventing funk along the way, and riding the night train for 26 years to musical immortality.

BEER: Boy Howdy!