Little Richard: The Originator; "The Architect of Rock 'n' Roll"

Little Richard is 80 today - Happy Birthday, Mr Penniman!

Let's hear it for- Lucille

Long Tall Sally

Long Tall Sally, Radio Recording, Australia 1957

Radio interview 1957

He got what he wanted (but he lost what he had )


Tutti Frutti

"All new music changes the world, but no music changed the world the way this song did...a seminal text in American culture, as much as ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ ‘Song of Myself’ and the great documents of the civil rights era are. In a sense, it’s America’s Other National Anthem.”
David Kirby, Little Richard, The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll