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[[File:Little Richard 1957 (cropped).JPG|frame|Little Richard in 1957]]
An American singer, songwriter and pianist who
Born in 1932 to a gospel-singing family, Richard Wayne Penniman recorded a few minor singles for small independent labels before he was discovered by record producers Art Rupe and Bumps Blackwell, who thought he could be a viable rival to [[Ray Charles]]. Richard recorded a string of hits, including "Tutti Frutti", "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Long Tall Sally" and starred in rock and roll films around the same time teenagers were recognised as a whole new demographic. His performances were famously wild and frenetic and his playing style, incorporating boogie-woogie influences, [[Funk]] rhythms and raw, energetic vocals, made Richard a huge hit with his audiences.
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Things changed in 1957, when Penniman had a seemingly prophetic dream about the [[Apocalypse How|end of the world]], believed he saw angels carrying a plane he thought was crashing and heard that the Russians had just launched Sputnik. He became convinced that God was telling him to stop playing rock music, so he entered a seminary, became a minister and began recording gospel songs instead. After that, Little Richard oscillated between gospel and his old rock and roll style until he eventually reconciled his roles as a reverend and a rocker.
He passed away in 2020... [[Long Runners|
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: At least one source says so.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Just here to cover all the possible options.
* [[Camp Straight]]: At least, according to the Other Wiki.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: He's
* [[First and Foremost]]: "Long Tall Sally" was written to deliberately invoke this (it was meant to be a song that white singers wouldn't cover). While it was initially successful, [[Elvis Presley|it didn't]] [[The Beatles|quite last]].
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: At one point his band included a then unknown guitarist named [[Jimi Hendrix]], who went on to do ''quite'' well after leaving (Richard kicked him out for refusing to wear his uniform).
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* [[Long Runners]]
* [[Lyrical Tic]]: He loves his "Whooooooh!"s and "Ah Hoooooooo!"s
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Sure, he got cosmetic surgery, but [http://www.bing.com/getimage?q=FCLB_9c91b5bb-327f-36c5-cd5f-9d2b55aafd48_2&wf=Genimage it seemed to have
* [[The Moral Substitute]]: His gospel recordings, as well as Pat Boone's cover versions of some of his early hits.
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock
* [[Signature Song]]: "Tutti Frutti".
* [[Signature Style]]: A mixture of boogie-woogie piano playing with funk rhythms and raspy vocals, or alternatively, "[[Family Guy|piano riff WOO!]]".
* [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: He worked for a travelling medicine show when he was a teenager. His job was to scream, sing and leap around the stage to attract a crowd and demonstrate the "results" of the stuff the salesman was pushing.
* [[Three Chords and
* [[Throw It In]]: Essentially how Richard became successful - an initial session with Blackwell failed to produce anything satisfactory and proved frustrating, so he started pounding out "Tutti Frutti" during a lunch break. Blackwell quickly recorded the song, with only a small adjustment to [[Bowdlerize]] the lyrics, and it became a hit.
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