Mid fifties Little Richard scare obediently America. With its owned piano, cotton candy hair and extremely loud voice grew this rock and roll pioneer into a true childhood hero. Richard Penniman was born in 1932 in Macon (Georgia) third in a family of twelve. Poverty and racism were rife during his childhood. The church, especially the ecstatic gospel messengers kept the eccentric but talented
… Richard. His hits from the fifties (Tutti Frutti, Good Golly Miss Molly, Long Tall Sally) remain timeless classics. Little Richard had a great influence on the generation of rock stars after him. John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and The Rolling Stones wore it on his hands. From the seventies, its popularity took off. Later in his career Richard swore off pop music several times to sing gospels.more
