Little Richard old Tutti Fruitti has passed onto the great blues gig in the sky

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LR once forgot the words to the US anthem at softball game in 1992.

ahh, simpler times!

 

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The Founding Father of Rock Music, total showman, singer extraordinaire!! the one and only!!

RIP Little Richard.

 

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Little Richard - Lucille LIVE 1973

Nobody does it like Little Richard!

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"That guy, for raw rock n' roll, you can't beat him." -Robby Krieger
In 1969, The Doors shared a bill with Little Richard in Canada for the Toronto Rock N' Roll Revival concert.

 

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" I’m a rock purist. Rock & Roll is voodoo, butt sex & amphetamine with a sprinkle of lynching " - Little Richard once said

 

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"I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be." -Little Richard was a mentor to the young generation with quotes like that!

 

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Little Richard had a special energy around him, besides being a badass piano player

but the image and big personality took away from the credit he deserves as a pianist

he proved that you can get people to dance to weird-ass music as long as its groovy!

 

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Little Richard was as much an avant-garde pioneer as Pollock or Parker or Warhol...and he should be considered among the greatest 20th century American innovators