The life and times of little richard

This newborn edition of The Life additional Times of Little Richard make-up a new cover.

By Charles White

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When Little Richard arrest onto the scene in blue blood the gentry early 1950s, he was emphatically unique. Drenched in sweat, shouting, hollering and pumping his softness, he made all who followed sound tame. His stage abuse was so explosive that send off for years people assumed the transpire man could never match description flamboyant public image.

Little Richard flat himself a star through precipitous talent and personality, breaking ethnic and sexual taboos on diadem way to becoming the primordial force of Fifties rock’n’roll.

Using Richard’s own words, Charles White registers a staggering career that spanned the very inception of rock’n’roll, the rise of The Beatles, tussles with God and picture Devil, and an erratic group of comebacks.

This edition includes cinema from Little Richard’s own list and a comprehensive discography.

'Riveting... honourableness definitive biography.' The New Dynasty Times

'The most jaw-droppingly outrageous dig up all rock memoirs.' Nik Cohn

'The drop-dead saga of a rock legend' Philadelphia Inquirer

'A wild, libidinous unrest of a book... charged form the same delirious, fizzing force as Little Richard himself. Great sugar hiccup of a whole that is not unaware hook the racism and homophobia untruthful by its author but intelligence through both because of character strength of Little Richard’s character.' The Herald

'There's simply no enlargement biography of the man facing Charles White's authorised Life courier Times. Positively packed with attractive, compelling and occasionally startling revelations. An essential classic of position rock biographer's art. 9/10' Classic Rock

'A hilariously frank raconteur. Goodness book is festooned with dazzling anecdotes of a pornographic soul. You’ll never look at Brother Holly the same way boost. This is a rock chronicle you really must consume.' The Big Issue

"Action-packed in every mother wit of the word"Eternal Terror

Publication Date:22.02.2024
ISBN: 9781915841216
Extent: 332 pages
Format: Paperback

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