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- MAR 2, 2022
- Greatest Hits (Rerecorded Version)
- 20 Songs
- The Essential Little Richard · 1985
- Last Man Standing · 2006
- The Essential Little Richard · 1985
- Playlist: The Best of the Reprise Years · 2004
- Happy Pop For Kids · 1957
- California I'm Comin (Unreleased Tracks) · 2016
- The Essential Little Richard · 1985
- California I'm Comin (Unreleased Tracks) · 2016
- The Essential Little Richard · 1985
- Mick Jagger & Keith Richards Songbook · 1971
Essential Albums
This original rock 'n' roller's screams are best enjoyed at maximum volume.
Clear out the living room furniture—it's about to get wild in here.
2013
1986
1973
1972
1971
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The original wild man of rock 'n' roll.
A guiding light for early rock 'n' roll's howling excitement.
Live Albums
1995
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The Little Richard Band
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About Little Richard
Many rock 'n' roll hits of the '50s might now sound almost tame. But even decades after they were first pounded out, Little Richard's singles have lost none of their shrieking-and-shouting intensity. And if they still feel like two-minutes-and-change jolts of pure joy today, they were blasts of liberation for teenagers in a decidedly more buttoned-up era. Macon, Georgia’s Richard Wayne Penniman, who died on May 9, 2020, brought the ecstatic belting of Baptist gospel into pop, blending it with the foot-stomping beat of the electrified blues. His gender-bending flamboyance shocked moralists while giving a voice to outsiders, scorching a path toward David Bowie's glam androgyny and Prince's gleefully pansexual revolution; the rip-it-up force of songs like "Lucille" and "Tutti Frutti" carried an unmistakable sexual charge. Those glorious torrents of wop-bop-a-loo-bop were barely concealed code for everything you didn't talk about in polite society, while also hitting you as pure ecstatic pop release. Meanwhile, his cross-cultural popularity was a battering ram against music's ruthlessly enforced racial barriers. Attacking his piano with an infectious sense of mayhem, Little Richard blurred the sacred and the profane into a scandalously beautiful roar.
- HOMETOWN
- Macon, GA, United States of America
- BORN
- December 5, 1932