James Brown got his big break as a Little Richard impersonator. Hendrix got his start playing guitar in Little Richard’s band. The Beatles formed around his work. Bob Dylan and Freddie Mercury began with his music. It’s impossible to overstate Little Richard’s influence.
The other masterful thing Little a Richard did in the 80s was to stop the show, repeatedly, at the biggest events in the music industry, and claim his deserved recognition from an industry that never gave him proper credit. This blew my mind as a kid:
Legends recognize legends.
