“I feel lucky to have been on the planet at the same time as Little Richard,” says Steve Van Zandt
It surfaced from time to time, more blatantly than others. Certainly it took a major turn with Mick Jagger and his performance in the film. It not only changed Mick himself, but it allowed everybody else to to be androgynous. I think that’s where glam came from, David Bowie and Marc Bolan and all the rest. David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, in that famous picture, they’re all looking very much like Little Richard.
Chuck Berry, tragically, was bitter right to the end. And it’s such a shame, because you carry that weight on your shoulders your whole life. Unlike Chuck, Richard never had an attitude. I mean, I talked to him about this. Almost every black artist back then was having their records covered. I know young people find this hard to believe, but in those days, there was black radio and white radio and white radio was not supposed to play black records.
And for us, it was an incredible education. You got a chance to hear all the ’50s and early ’60s stuff that you didn’t know. And that would have included Little Richard, and then a lot of the guys I would meet later when I toured on the oldies circuit with the Dovells. I met Gary U.S. Bonds on that tour and Lloyd Price and the Drifters and Ben E. King and all those Shirelles and Chiffons.
We started having oldies nights, at Upstage, the club where we hung out in Asbury Park, and that’s where we really learned our craft. So we started having all these nights where we’d play some of those ’50s songs, which we’d never done. It was fun, and it was a major part of the education process. Rock & roll is just like anything else. You’ve got to educate yourself and learn the craft. And that means going back to the beginning and learning from the masters.
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