"Little Richard" (2000) Made For TV biopic by Robert Townshend

A History of Rock n' Roll in Film and Rock n' Roll

This is one I started more than a year ago, and just didn't want to get anything wrong by rushing to publication too soon. But now I'm ok with the amount of research packed into this episode and can move on to creating #2. Here are a few things you have to look forward to:

• Richard’s scat-centric pranks on family and neighbors as a child
• Early abuse at the hands of strange white men from out of town
• The many influences that shaped his stagecraft and persona
• His father’s murder at the hands of just some dude that was drunk and in a bad mood
• His journey from local bandleader to touring dynamo
• A few of his early attempts at hit making that did not go over with the record buying public
• The key differences between him and R&B or Blues artists of his era
• A Rik Mayall quote from the time he met Richard
• Life in The Upsetters on the road
• A history lesson on "conking"
• Recording "Tutti Frutti" with all the butt sex language taken out
• Getting arrested for public sex stuff

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