Little Richard made himself a star through sheer force of personality, breaking racial and sexual taboos on his way to becoming the primal force of 1950s\' rock \'n\' roll.
Illustrated with pictures from Little Richard\'s own archive and including a comprehensive discography..
Using Richard\'s own words, White chronicles a staggering career that spanned the very rules of rock \'n\' roll, the rise of The Beatles, tussles with God and The Devil and an erratic series of comebacks.
Charles White is the only author to have captured the true energy of Little Richard.
Otis Redding called him his \'inspiration\' and James Brown called him his idol.
Elvis Presley called him \'the greatest\'.
Little Richard made himself a star through sheer force of personality, breaking racial and sexual taboos on his way to becoming the primal force of Fifties rock \'n\' roll.
Then came Charles White\'s sensational book exposing the even more astonishing Life and Times of Richard Wayne Penniman from Georgia.
Drenched in sweat, screaming, hollering and pumping his piano, his stage act was so explosive that for years people assumed the real man could never match the flamboyant public image.
When Little Richard burst onto the scene in the early 1950s, he sounded like nothing on earth.
The classic authorized Biography that told it all.
Using Richard\'s own words, White chronicles his staggering career.
Little Richard made himself a star through sheer force of personality, breaking racial and sexual taboos on his way to becoming the primal force of 1950s\' rock \'n\' roll
