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Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. In everything from his hairstyle to his lyrics, we see the influence of gay contemporaries like Esquerita and Billy Wright.
When a 14-year-old Paul McCartney watched Little Richard in the hit film ‘The Girl Can’t Help It,’ he couldn’t have imagined that the two would one day take the stage together.
Richard Wayne Penniman was one of a handful of pioneers who shaped the original rock and roll sound.
During a tour to Australia, Little Richard feared the nuclear apocalypse and – on stage – annonced he was giving up music.
Little Richard swung between flamboyant performances and religious fervour - but he always came back to music. With news of his death at 87, musicians paid tribute to his huge rock ‘n’ roll legacy.
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Professor of Music Education, University of South Florida
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Professor of English, University of Oregon
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Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century American Literature, University of Birmingham
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Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, The University of Melbourne