Little Richard

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Not many people leave this earth with a legacy of playing an important part in building a cultural norm. Rock and Roll music became a cultural norm for the last half of the twentieth century and Little Richard was an important founding father. Rolling Stone said this about him:

Although he never hit the Top 10 again after 1958, Little Richard’s influence was massive. The Beatles recorded several of his songs, including “Long Tall Sally,” and Paul McCartney’s singing on those tracks – and the Beatles’ own “I’m Down” – paid tribute to Little Richard’s shredded-throat style. His songs became part of the rock & roll canon, covered over the decades by everyone from the Everly Brothers, the Kinks, and Creedence Clearwater Revival to Elvis Costello and the Scorpions. “Elvis popularized [rock & roll],” Steven Van Zandt tweeted after the news broke. “Chuck Berry was the storyteller. Richard was the archetype.”
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Little Richard helped bring the Rock & Roll genre to the world. Millions of us kids listened and jived to him and many others as 45 rpm big hole records overwhelmed A.M. radio and baby boomer young listeners.

He was one of the greats. RIP.

1995 Concert for the Opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum.

 

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Not many people leave this earth with a legacy of playing an important part in building a cultural norm. Rock and Roll music became a cultural norm for the last half of the twentieth century and Little Richard was an important founding father. Rolling Stone said this about him:

Although he never hit the Top 10 again after 1958, Little Richard’s influence was massive. The Beatles recorded several of his songs, including “Long Tall Sally,” and Paul McCartney’s singing on those tracks – and the Beatles’ own “I’m Down” – paid tribute to Little Richard’s shredded-throat style. His songs became part of the rock & roll canon, covered over the decades by everyone from the Everly Brothers, the Kinks, and Creedence Clearwater Revival to Elvis Costello and the Scorpions. “Elvis popularized [rock & roll],” Steven Van Zandt tweeted after the news broke. “Chuck Berry was the storyteller. Richard was the archetype.”
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Little Richard helped bring the Rock & Roll genre to the world. Millions of us kids listened and jived to him and many others as 45 rpm big hole records overwhelmed A.M. radio and baby boomer young listeners.

He was one of the greats. RIP.

1995 Concert for the Opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum.

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Let’s not forget he was also instrumental in finding Jimi Hendrix.