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Pioneering, flamboyant, eccentric Little Richardwas all these things, and then some.
Onstage and off, he defined rock star.
Angel had the fastest tongue in the west.
She was doing that to me and Buddy took out his thing.
She opened up her legs and he put it in her.
He finished and went to the stage still fastening himself up.
Ill never forget that.
He came and he went.
Just read how casually he describes one:
I remember one night, we had this wonderful orgy going.
It was one of the best I have ever been to.
And in the middle of this orgy, that was fantastic, somebody knocked on my door.
I said: Just a moment!
This is an orgy!
He also found ways to keep his religion involved.
Sometimes I had my Bible right by me.
In 1984, he toldRolling Stonethat hed also oversee his bandmates during their orgies.
I used to like to watch these people having sex with my band men.
They should have called me Richard the Watcher, he said.
I got to be a professional jack-offer.
He did this to his own mother as well as an elderly female neighbor.
She wanted to know what I had brought her.
She said, Let us see what Richard has brought for me.
Then I just heard, Aaaaaaa, aaaaaaahhh Im gonna kill him.
he recounted in Whites book.
This big light came over and it was frightening to me.
I have always feared that the world was going to end.
And I threw all my big rings in the water.
Ashe once told director John Watersin an interview forPlayboy:
I feel Bob Dylan is my blood brother.
I believe if I didnt have a place to stay, Bob Dylan would buy me a house.
He sat by my bed; he didnt move for hours.
I was in pain that medicine couldnt stop.
My tongue was cut out, leg all tore up, bladder punctured.
I was supposed to be dead.
God resurrected me; thats the reason I have to tell the world about it.
But he was lying.
I was helping him lie.
He had a stage out in the open and a feller by the name of James would play piano.
I would sing, Caldonia, Caldonia, what makes your big head so hard?
I was also blowing about $1,000 of cocaine a day, he toldPeople.
When Id blow my nose, blood and flesh would come out on my handkerchief.
I dont call myself that, but I believe its true.
Thats how Richard began his self-penned blurb forRolling Stones 100 Greatest Artists of All Time feature.
Because it wont be who I think it should be.
The Rolling Stones started with me, but theyre 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 theyre going to always be in front of me.
at one point, Pettytold theChicago Tribunein 2001, shortly after the wedding.
He will be sorely missed by the music community.
This aint no Tutti Frutti, this is real, he told the crowd that day.
His 1955 career-defining hit originally included these lyrics:
Tutti frutti good booty!
If it dont fit Dont force it!
