The legendary 'Tutti Frutti' singer influenced generations of musicians, including The Beatles, Prince, Elton John, and more.
Little Richard, one of the foremost originators of rock and roll whose ecstatic, flamboyant performance style single-handedly paved the way for generations of popular music entertainers, died on Saturday. He was 87., which first reported the news, but said the cause of death was unknown.
The songs, rife with carnal desire, inner-turmoil, and adolescent angst, signaled Little Richard as one of the most unique songwriting voices in American popular music, a poet and prophet of narrative nonsense with an unparalleled knack for alliteration and rhyme whose insistence upon placing the physical body and desire at the center of the rock and roll experience would come to define the genre for decades to come.
After having a falling out with his father over his homosexuality, Richard fled town as a teenager. “I didn’t like to sing like nobody else. I didn’t like to play like nobody else,” RichardAfter getting a deal with Specialty Records in 1955, Richard recorded his breakthrough signature hit “Tutti Frutti” after improvising the song at an impromptu daytime performance at the infamous New Orleans nightclub the Dew Drop Inn.
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