The Life and Times of Little Richard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life and Times of Little Richard write by Charles White. This book was released on 1985. The Life and Times of Little Richard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Big Life of Little Richard
The Big Life of Little Richard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big Life of Little Richard write by Mark Ribowsky. This book was released on 2020-08-25. The Big Life of Little Richard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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
Little Richard
Little Richard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Little Richard write by David Kirby. This book was released on 2009-11-02. Little Richard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the life and career of the rock and roll legend.
Rocking the Closet
Rocking the Closet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rocking the Closet write by Vincent L Stephens. This book was released on 2019-10-16. Rocking the Closet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Little Richard
Little Richard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Little Richard write by Patricia M. Scarry. This book was released on 1970-01-01. Little Richard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nine stories about Little Richard, the rabbit, and the many other animals that live in or near his house in the woods.
