The life and times of little richard
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The Life and Times of Little Richard review – eye-popping anecdotes of a pornographic nature
Little Richard, the big bang of rock ’n’ roll freakdom, was a magnificent and unique cat whose many contradictions and epoch-shaking genius were laid bare in Charles White’s riveting biography The Life and Times of Little Richard. This latest edition features bonus chapters, previously unseen photos and an exhaustive discography.
Written with Richard’s full cooperation, it mostly consists of transcribed interviews linked by White’s contextualising interludes. This allows Richard and his associates to tell their versions of the truth, which are far more interesting than anything White – a rather prosaic writer – has to say. He’s such an awestruck fanboy he never challenges our sometimes-unreliable narrator.
That, however, works in the book’s favour. We spend unedited time in the fascinating mind of Little Richard, a devoutly religious
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The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography
This new edition of The Life and Times of Little Richard features a new cover.
By Charles White
One of David Bowie’s Top Favourite Books
When Little Richard burst onto the scene in the early s, he was utterly unique. Drenched in sweat, screaming, hollering and pumping his piano, he made all who followed sound tame. His stage act was so explosive that for years people assumed the real man could never match the flamboyant public image.
Little Richard made himself a star through sheer talent and personality, breaking racial and sexual taboos on his way to becoming the primal force of Fifties rock’n’roll.
Using Richard’s own words, Charles White chronicles a staggering career that spanned the very inception of rock’n’roll, the rise of The Beatles, tussles with God and the Devil, and an erratic series of comebacks.
This edition includes pictures from Little Richard’s own archive and a comprehensive discography.
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