Little Richard's Here's Little Richard
Little Richard's Here's Little Richard

Author: Jordan Bassett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1501389130

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From male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exciting person on the planet between 1955 and 1957, the years in which his seismic debut album was created. Featuring new interviews with famous fans including Sir Elton John, Dave Grohl, Joan Jett and Nile Rodgers, this is the first in-depth look at Here's Little Richard since Richard Penniman's death in May 2020. The book explores his roots in the queer underground of the American South, a scene so progressive you'd scarcely believe it thrived seven decades ago, and early rebel music such as jump blues, which soon collided with the emerging juggernaut that was rock'n'roll. When that weird alchemy occurred, the self-proclaimed Living Flame was ready to spark the likes of The Beatles, David Bowie and Prince into existence. Those close to the tale pinpoint the ways in which 'Long Tall Sally' and 'Tutti Frutti' remain omnipresent – and why the latter was the 'WAP' of its day. This is the story of how Little Richard changed the world in 28 minutes and 30 seconds. A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom!

Reinventing Pink Floyd
Reinventing Pink Floyd

Author: Bill Kopp

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-02-09

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1538108283

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In celebration of the 45th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp explores the ingenuity with which Pink Floyd rebranded itself following the 1968 departure of Syd Barrett. Not only did the band survive Barrett’s departure, but it went on to release landmark albums that continue to influence generations of musicians and fans. Reinventing Pink Floyd follows the path taken by the remaining band members to establish a musical identity, develop a songwriting style, and create a new template for the manner in which albums are made and even enjoyed by listeners. As veteran music journalist Bill Kopp illustrates, that path was filled with failed experiments, creative blind alleys, one-off musical excursions, abortive collaborations, general restlessness, and—most importantly—a dedicated search for a distinctive musical personality. This exciting guide to the works of 1968 through 1973 highlights key innovations and musical breakthroughs of lasting influence. Kopp places Pink Floyd in its historical, cultural, and musical contexts while celebrating the test of fire that took the band from the brink of demise to enduring superstardom.

The Big Life of Little Richard
The Big Life of Little Richard

Author: Mark Ribowsky

Publisher: Diversion Books

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1635767237

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“This entertaining, fast-paced biography” of the legendary singer-songwriter “will thrill fans of Little Richard and early rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly). Richard Wayne Penniman, known to the world as Little Richard, blazed the trail for generations of musicians: The Beatles, James Brown, the Everly Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Prince . . . the list seems endless. He was “The Originator,” “The Innovator,” and the self-anointed “King and Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll.” In The Big Life of Little Richard, Mark Ribowsky shares the raucous story of his life from early childhood in Macon, Georgia, to his death in 2020. Ribowsky, acclaimed biographer of musical icons―including the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and Otis Redding―takes readers through venues, gigs, and studios, conveying the sweaty energy of music sessions limited to a few tracks on an Ampex tape machine and vocals sung along with a live band. He explores Little Richard’s musicianship; his family life; his uphill battle against racism; his interactions with famous contemporaries and the media; and his lifelong inner conflict between his religion and his sexuality. By 2020, eighty-seven-year-old Little Richard’s electrifying smile was still intact, as were his bona fides as rock’s royal architect: the ’50s defined his reign, and he extended elder statesmanship ever since. The Big Life of Little Richard not only explores a legendary stage persona, but also a complex life under the makeup and pomade

Here
Here

Author: Richard McGuire

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0593315928

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From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision: the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. “A book like this comes along once a decade, if not a century…. I guarantee that you’ll remember exactly where you are, or were, when you first read it.” —Chris Ware, The Guardian "In Here McGuire has introduced a third dimension to the flat page. He can poke holes in the space-time continuum simply by imposing frames that act as trans­temporal windows into the larger frame that stands for the provisional now. Here is the ­comic-book equivalent of a scientific breakthrough. It is also a lovely evocation of the spirit of place, a family drama under the gaze of eternity and a ghost story in which all of us are enlisted to haunt and be haunted in turn.” —The New York Times Book Review With full-color illustrations throughout.

Backbeat
Backbeat

Author: Tony Scherman

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2000-09-07

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780306809804

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There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palmer co-created hundreds of hits and transformed the lope of rhythm and blues into full-tilt rock and roll. He was, as a result, one of the first session men to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Palmer's distinctive voice alternates with the insights of music journalist and historian Tony Scherman in an unforgettable trip through the social and musical cultures of mid-century New Orleans and the feverish world of early rock.

Little Richard 59 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Little Richard
Little Richard 59 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Little Richard

Author: Ann Stokes

Publisher: Emereo Publishing

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781488568237

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The most comprehensive Biography yet of Little Richard. This book is your ultimate resource for Little Richard. Here you will find the most up-to-date 59 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Little Richard's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Little Richard discography - Albums, Lucille (Little Richard song) - Cover versions, Pray Along with Little Richard - Track listing, Right Now! (Little Richard album) - Track listing, Little Richard (TV miniseries) - Differences from noted events, The Second Coming (Little Richard album), Mr. Big (Little Richard album) - Personnel, tracks 6, 8 and 10, Little Richard - Early life, Little Richard Live - History, Rip It Up (Little Richard song) - Cover versions, Little Richard Live - Track listing, Little Richard - Music, Mr. Big (Little Richard album) - Charts, Here's Little Richard - Track listing, Right Now! (Little Richard album) - History, Mr. Big (Little Richard album) - Personnel, tracks 1,3-5, Little Richard (album), Here's Little Richard - Personnel, Right Now! (Little Richard album) - Personnel, Little Richard - Religion, Little Richard - Return to secular music, Mr. Big (Little Richard album) - The Alternate Mr. Big, Mr. Big (Little Richard album) - History, The Second Coming (Little Richard album) - Personnel, Little Richard - Society, Little Richard - Beginnings, Little Richard (TV miniseries) - Awards and nominations, Friends from the Beginning - Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard - Drug and alcohol use, Mr. Big (Little Richard album) - Track listing, Little Richard (album) - Side one, and much more...

Good Booty
Good Booty

Author: Ann Powers

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0062463713

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NPR Best Books of 2017 In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race. In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America’s primary erotic art form. Powers takes us from nineteenth-century New Orleans through dance-crazed Jazz Age New York to the teen scream years of mid-twentieth century rock-and-roll to the cutting-edge adventures of today’s web-based pop stars. Drawing on her deep knowledge and insights on gender and sexuality, Powers recounts stories of forbidden lovers, wild shimmy-shakers, orgasmic gospel singers, countercultural perverts, soft-rock sensitivos, punk Puritans, and the cyborg known as Britney Spears to illuminate how eroticism—not merely sex, but love, bodily freedom, and liberating joy—became entwined within the rhythms and melodies of American song. This cohesion, she reveals, touches the heart of America's anxieties and hopes about race, feminism, marriage, youth, and freedom. In a survey that spans more than a century of music, Powers both heralds little known artists such as Florence Mills, a contemporary of Josephine Baker, and gospel queen Dorothy Love Coates, and sheds new light on artists we think we know well, from the Beatles and Jim Morrison to Madonna and Beyoncé. In telling the history of how American popular music and sexuality intersect—a magnum opus over two decades in the making—Powers offers new insights into our nation psyche and our soul.