Orphaned young and raised on the streets, this young man became a music and TV icon

not fully pull him from the gravitational pull of the streets. He returned to a life of high-stakes risk, participating in bank robberies that carried the constant threat of a life sentence or an early grave. He was living on borrowed time, a man walking a razor’s edge between the prison cell and the morgue, waiting for the inevitable crash.

Then, the continue reading …