WICKED PICKETT TRIPS UP
It’s reported that Wilson Pickett, formerly with Atlantic Records, has JANUARY 20 signed with RCA for over two million dollars in a three-year deal that has two additional yearly options. The decision proves a bad one, with his next four albums – including 1973’s Miz Lena’s Boy and 1975’s weirdly hippy-fied Join Me And Let’s Be Free – all performing poorly. “RCA gave me millions of dollars and I didn’t sell one fucking record,” Pickett reveals to interviewer Michael Lydon in 1977. With his cocaine use increasing, the singer, who had reputedly offended both Elvis Presley and the mafia when playing in Las Vegas, leaves RCA in ’75, admitting that he regretted leaving Atlantic.