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Little Richard, de son vrai nom Richard Wayne Penniman, est un pianiste, auteur-compositeur-interprète et acteur américain, né le 5 décembre 1932. Il est l'un des créateurs du rock 'n' roll de la fin des années 1950.

Avec Chuck Berry, Fats Domino et Bo Diddley, il est l’un des premiers musiciens noirs de rock 'n' roll à connaître les faveurs du public blanc. Personnalité rebelle, Little Richard marque son époque par ses chansons et ses tenues vestimentaires flamboyantes, autant de caractéristiques qui ont contribué à définir le ton et l’image du rock 'n' roll. Il a considérablement influencé les musiciens de la génération suivante : les Beatles , les Rolling Stones, Elton John, David Bowie, ou encore le chanteur et musicien Prince.

Il est le compositeur et l'interprète de quelques-uns des plus grands classiques du rock 'n' roll, dont Long Tall Sally, Good Golly, Miss Molly, Rip It Up, Lucille et Tutti Frutti, reprise de nombreuses fois, par Elvis Presley notamment, ou Johnny Hallyday. En 2008, le magazine Rolling Stone l'a classé 12e plus grand chanteur de tous les temps. En outre, il fut intronisé au Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dès sa création, en 1986. Wikipedia  

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“I appreciate being picked one of the top 100 performers, but who is number one and who is number two doesn't matter to me anymore. Because it won't be who I think it should be. The Rolling Stones started with me, but they're going to always be in front of me. The Beatles started with me — at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, before they ever made an album — but they're going to always be in front of me. James Brown, Jimi Hendrix — these people started with me. I fed them, I talked to them, and they're going to always be in front of me.”

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On Rolling Stone list on 100 Greatest Artists, 100 Greatest Artists | Little Richard | Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/little-richard-20110420
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“There's something I prefer not saying, I will say this. I'm a believer in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I believe the seventh-day Sabbath is God's way. I believe we should eat kosher. I was invited to a party night before last. Rod Stewart's. I didn't go, because I open the Sabbath on Friday.”

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When John Waters asked him, Are you Jewish now? http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/28/john-waters-met-little-richard.
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“The average person, when they see a black man, they would say "Man, he got soul cos' his color." But I disagree with that. I think that God would be a very selfish God if He gave all the soul to one race. He lets his rain fall on the red flowers, the green flowers, the blue flowers; the good, the bad, no races, so He lets His blessings fall on all races. So I think that there are types of souls, like there are different types of cars. But they're all cars. You know, I think that, when a white guy sing[s], if he have soul, that don't mean that he had to copy no negro to get it. I believe if he feels, when one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.”

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Remarks on the question: can a white man sing soul music?. Pop Chronicles: Show 15 - The Soul Reformation I: A symposium on soul http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19764/m1/, interview recorded 1.2.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.

“His rhythm is the only one I can sing my songs to.”

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On Chuck Berry, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/chuckberryhailhailrocknrollpgharrington_a0aa6d.htm
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“Bob Dylan is my brother. I love him same as Bobby Darin [deceased] is my baby. I feel Bob Dylan is my blood brother. I believe if I didn't have a place to stay, Bob Dylan would buy me a house. He sat by my bed; he didn't move for hours. I was in pain that medicine couldn't stop. My tongue was cut out, leg all tore up, bladder punctured. I was supposed to be dead. Six feet under. God resurrected me; that's the reason I have to tell the world about it.”

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When John Waters met Little Richard http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/28/john-waters-met-little-richard.
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“A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.”

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quoted from Tutti Frutti, p. 75
White, Charles (2003). The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0306805529.

“Well, long tall Sally, she's built for speed,
She's got everything that uncle John need.
Oh baby, yes baby, woo baby, havin' me some fun tonight.”

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Long Tall Sally, written by Enotris Johnson, Robert Blackwell, and Richard Penniman.
Song lyrics, Here's Little Richard (1957)

“Well, you know I used to play piano for the church. You know that spiritual, 'Give Me that Old Time Religion', most churches just say, [sings] "Give me that old time religion" but I did, [sings] "Give me that old time, talkin' 'bout religion," you know I put that little thing in it you know, I always did have that thing but I didn't know what to do with the thing I had. So the style has always been with me… I always had my little thing I wanted to let the world hear, you know.”

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When asked what inspired him to write 'Tutti Frutti' amd where the style came from, in The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 (1989) edited by Peter Herbst, p. 91.

“I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.”

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quoted in Hamm (1979). Yesterdays, p. 391.
Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open University Press. .

“I got a gal, named Sue, she knows just what to do,
I got a gal, named Sue, she knows just what to do.
She rocks to the East, she rocks to the West,
She is the gal that I love best.
Tutti frutti, oh rutti.”

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Tutti Frutti.
Song lyrics, Here's Little Richard (1957)

“I woke up this mornin', Lucille was not in sight,
I asked my friends about her but all their lips was tight,
Lucille, please come back where you belong,
I've been good to you baby, please don't lead me along.”

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Lucille, written by Albert Collins and Richard Penniman.
Song lyrics, Little Richard (1958)

“I call my music the healing music… It makes the blind feel that they can see, the lame feel that they can walk, the deaf and dumb that they can hear and talk.”

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Pop Chronicles: Show 5 - Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll: The rock revolution gets underway. (Part 1) https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19751/m1/#track/6, interview recorded 1.2.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.

“A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-wop-bam-boom!”

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Tutti Frutti, written by Richard Penniman, Dorothy LaBostrie, and Joe Lubin.
Song lyrics, Here's Little Richard (1957)