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Author : Charles White
Release : 1985
Genre : Rock musicians
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 814/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Little Richard by : Charles White
Download or read book The Life and Times of Little Richard written by Charles White. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Ribowsky
Release : 2020-08-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Big Life of Little Richard by : Mark Ribowsky
Download or read book The Big Life of Little Richard written by Mark Ribowsky. This book was released on 2020-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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
Author : David Kirby
Release : 2009-11-02
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 653/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Little Richard by : David Kirby
Download or read book Little Richard written by David Kirby. This book was released on 2009-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the life and career of the rock and roll legend.
Author : Vincent L Stephens
Release : 2019-10-16
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rocking the Closet by : Vincent L Stephens
Download or read book Rocking the Closet written by Vincent L Stephens. This book was released on 2019-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-embracing, "whaddya got?" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume—but not see—their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations.Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closet—both coming out and staying in—by analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberace's flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathis's intimate sensitivity while Ray's overwrought displays as "Mr. Emotion" seemed worlds apart from Little Richard's raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of gray flannel manhood, they pioneered the ways generations of later musicians would consciously adopt sexual mystery as an appealing and proven route to success.
Author : Patricia M. Scarry
Release : 1970-01-01
Genre : Children's stories
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Book Rating : 551/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Little Richard by : Patricia M. Scarry
Download or read book Little Richard written by Patricia M. Scarry. This book was released on 1970-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine stories about Little Richard, the rabbit, and the many other animals that live in or near his house in the woods.
