RIP Little Richard
Rock pioneer Little Richard has died at the age of 87. As CNN reports,
“The pioneer would have stood out in any era. But in the 1950s, when Little Richard came to prominence, he was like no other: a flamboyant, makeup-wearing, piano-playing black man who personified the `devil’s music’ to establishment guardians. . . . `Richard opened the door. He brought the races together,” said arranger H.B. Barnum in Charles White’s 1984 biography The Life and Times of Little Richard.”
KJ
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