A Chat With... The Little Richard Story

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A rollercoaster career, denouncing rock'n'roll in 1957 to become a preacher. In 1962 he returned with a UK tour and Hamburg residency with the Beatles.
But to begin... In 1951 he won a talent contest and scored a recording contract with RCA but, sadly his early recordings failed to find the mark.
Success came in 1955 when he signed to Speciality and released Tutti Frutti.
He became one of the biggest rock'n'roll stars of the 1950s. Until, on tour in Australia in 1957 he found religion and renounced rock'n'roll. He only recorded gospel music until His return to rock'n'roll in 1962.
By then it was a very different music landscape and Little Richard never returned to the fame he left behind.
This radio shaw looks at his rise to fame and also all the great things he was up to, after his return to rock'n'roll...
And there's so much more...

Author of the book Rock'nRoll Unravelled, Derek Shelmerdine in conversation with international DJ/radio host Sam MacBeath on radio station KPHR

Lots more on my website..: Rock'n'Roll Unravelled - the story of rock'n'roll from its roots to mid-1970s punk. Not just the music but also the social factors which influenced the music of the time.


First broadcast in October 2024.

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