“Figures like Little Richard or Esquerita have been excluded from the history of rock and roll for a long time,” says Lisa Cortés, the director of Little Richard: I Am Everything, via video call. The fact that rock and roll was a synonym for rebellion had a lot to do with the fact that one of its main architects was a Black, notoriously homosexual man who performed in the racist, homophobic southern United States of the 1950s. His legacy is honored in the documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything, released last year, which goes over the singer’s biography, his crucial musical contributions and the groundbreaking nature of his figure. Bonnie Schiffman Photography (Getty Images) Contact sheet from a Little Richard photo shoot in 1984. Mick, you remember that?” he said jokingly, but very seriously, before the industry’s top brass in 1989, on the occasion of Otis Redding’s inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The greatest singers that ever lived have been with me, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, the Beatles, Mick Jagger. “You should all be fighting to make me an album. However, Little Richard never reached the huge commercial and popular magnitude of his most famous pupils. Mick Jagger slept on the floor of his room, Paul McCartney took lessons to scream like him, and Elvis Presley recognized him as the true king of rock and roll.
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