Little Richard embodied the spirit of rock and roll at its most incendiary
possible. But the Beatles actually opened for Little Richard in Hamburg, a gestation point for the soaring whoo-hoos and yeah yeah yeahs with which they'd soon be promising pop utopia. And of course Richard also wrote"Long Tall Sally," which Paul McCartney covered so wildly and credibly it's been his ticket to rock 'n' roll heaven ever since, with none other than George Martin on piano. And that's just the white people side.
As with Brown and Hendrix, it's not mere metaphor to claim Little Richard as some kind of shaman -- Rogan Taylor'scites his far-ranging voice, spirit-calling gibberish, and pansexual makeup as long-established shamanistic accoutrements. But minstrelsy scholar W.T.
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