4. Cocaine made James do some strange things.

James made his national TV debut on American Bandstand. He performed his singles “You and I” and “Mary Jane” and did a long interview with Dick Clark, who he remembers as “one of the nicest cats I’d ever met.” The only problem: James had done so much blow backstage, his nose started running profusely. “I started sniffing and wiping myself until it had to be obvious to Dick and a million viewers what was really going on.”