Peter Guralnick recalls two encounters with the rock & roll legend
These are not household names, though you will learn much more about them if you read Richard’s book. But Little Richard lit up like a Christmas tree at their mention — and not in any way you might imagine from his public appearances. There was none of the affect of the latter-day TV personality, no “shut ups,” no cleverly rhyming, non-stop encomiums to himself.
Sometimes — perhaps all too often — his flamboyance could overshadow his talent. But it should never be forgotten:His music represented not just spontaneous flair and unbridled energy, but genius, too — and the determination to be heard,. Listen to a soul ballad like “I Don’t Know What You Got , recorded in the mid-1960s.
No one was more dynamic than Little Richard. When he was coaxed out of his show-biz retirement for the first time to tour England with Sam Cooke in 1962, at the end of the show, recalled Sam’s road manager, J.W. Alexander, “Richard came out with a damn chair in his mouth, and he pulled off his [religious] robe, and he literally slayed them.” He sang all of his hits, ran screaming up and down the aisle, and whatever peak Sam had been able to achieve, Richard was able to overcome with what J.W.
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