Little Richard lived a life full of of sex, drugs, spirituality, generosity, sex, bravado, kindness, and more sex. Here are 14 outrageous stories about him
Photo: Siegfried Loch - K & K/Redferns Pioneering, flamboyant, eccentric — Little Richard was all these things, and then some. And just as his anarchic performances suggested, the late legend was just as wild away from the piano, living a life full of sex, drugs, spirituality, generosity, sex, bravado, kindness, and some more sex.
2. He Had Orgies With Lots of Others, Too As remembered by Vulture’s Bill Wyman in his examination of Little Richard’s sex-filled songwriting, the star was a lover of group sex and never seemed to view it as taboo. Just read how casually he describes one: 4. He Loved Voyeurism — and Got Arrested for It One of Richard’s other kinks was watching others, a habit that got him in hot water a few times. In one instance in 1955, he got caught into a car watching a couple go at it and spent three days in jail. In 1984, he told Rolling Stone that he’d also oversee his bandmates during their orgies. “I used to like to watch these people having sex with my band men. They should have called me Richard the Watcher,” he said.
After that 1957 incident, Richard spent a few years out of the music business, traveling the country as a preacher and marrying Ernestine Harvin, a union that would only last into the early ’60s, around the time he was arrested for a 1962 homosexual encounter in a bus-station men’s room. 10. He Was a Literal Snake-Oil Salesman Following his expulsion from home by his father, Richard started working with Dr. Hudson’s Medicine Show as a performer, helping the man sell his counterfeit wares. He told Rolling Stone:
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