R.I.P. Little Richard!

[Hepcat]

Rock and roll pioneer Little Richard (5 December 1932 - 9 May 2020) passed away earlier today at the age of 87. A showman extraordinaire and accomplished keyboardist, Little Richard stretched the boundaries of pop music and laid the groundwork for the soul and funk genres that exploded onto the music scene in the 1960's.







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVIttmFAzek#

[marsattacks666]

R.I.P., to an absolute legend.

[Kidagain]

Good Golly Miss Molly, rest in peace Little Richard.

[Monsters For Sale]

As a kid, I thought Jerry Lee Lewis was really out there.  And then I heard Little Richard.

His headstone should just read, Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!

[LugosiFan25]

I think almost all of the original Rock n Roll legends are gone, except for The Killer...

So sad. Rest in peace.

[geezer butler]

He was a bad dude. I dig a lot of 50s and early 60s rock n roll. Buddy Holly is prob my fav, but Little Richard would be my second fav. He was big influence, obviously. But I think about the harder rock bands I listen to, and you can see and hear the influences. Ian Gillian from Deep Purple, totally influenced by Little Richard's screaming. And look at the visually interesting bands in the 70s like Bowie, Alice Cooper, Kiss etc. Little Richard def an inspiration for those types of artists.

[Hepcat]

Little Richard defined glam twenty years before the term was coined.