{"id":10679,"date":"2020-05-09T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10679"},"modified":"2020-05-17T19:14:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T02:14:29","slug":"little-richard-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/09\/little-richard-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Richard Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/little-richard-tribute-rob-sheffield-996849\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018I Majored in Mouth\u2019: How Little Richard Invented the Rock Star<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>With his \u201cA-wop bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop bam boom\u201d battle cry, the late singer-pianist embodied an irrepressible rebel spirit that inspired everyone from John Lennon to Jimi Hendrix<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/author\/rob-sheffield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ROB SHEFFIELD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-959923602W.jpg?resize=1800,1200&amp;w=450\" alt=\"American musician and singer Little Richard pictured, with Screaming Lord Sutch behind,  speaking at a press conference to promote his appearance at the London Rock and Roll Show at Wembley Stadium in London, 4th August 1972. (Photo by Jack Kay\/Daily Express\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)\"\/><figcaption>Rob Sheffield looks back on how Little Richard&#8217;s big mouth and chaotic ego paved the way for every rock star who would follow. Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebellion, outrage, scandal, hypersexual egomania, ripping it up, rocking it up, gigantic hair, and mascara \u2014 all these things are in rock &amp; roll because\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/little-richard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Little Richard<\/a>\u00a0put them there. He was the loudest and wildest and rudest of the Fifties pioneers, the most flamboyantly and untamably free.\u00a0He invented the rock star. That\u2019s why the world is mourning today for Little Richard, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/little-richard-dead-48505\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died this morning at 87<\/a>. \u201cThe Girl Can\u2019t Help It,\u201d \u201cTutti Frutti,\u201d \u201cSlippin\u2019 and Slidin\u2019,\u201d \u201cGood Golly, Miss Molly,\u201d \u201cHeebie Jeebies\u201d \u2014 these songs have been an inspiration to rebel hearts ever since. When John Lennon was asked in 1970 by\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone\u2019<\/em>s Jann S. Wenner about his taste in music, Lennon simply replied, \u201cA-wop bop-a-loo-bop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That battle cry \u2014 the opening holler of \u201cTutti Frutti\u201d \u2014 kicked off Little Richard\u2019s career in 1955. It was the sound of a poor gay black kid in Macon, Georgia, announcing to the world that his time had come, exploding with falsetto screams and piano-stomping flash and a six-inch pompadour. As Little Richard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/little-richard-child-of-god-2-177027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in his legendary 1970 cover story, \u201cI came from a family where my people didn\u2019t like rhythm &amp; blues. Bing Crosby, \u2018Pennies From Heaven,\u2019 Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard. And I knew there was something that could be louder than that, but didn\u2019t know where to find it. And I found it was me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/little-richard-tribute-rob-sheffield-996849\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Rolling Stone<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Rolling Stone \u2018I Majored in Mouth\u2019: How Little Richard Invented the Rock Star With his \u201cA-wop bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop bam boom\u201d battle cry, the late singer-pianist embodied an irrepressible rebel spirit that inspired everyone from John Lennon to Jimi Hendrix ByROB SHEFFIELD Rebellion, outrage, scandal, hypersexual egomania, ripping it up, rocking it up, gigantic hair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}