and that’s what I meant at the time. And so I wrote ‘Tutti Frutti’ in the kitchen.” Once Richard got to the studio however, the song became more about sex than greasy pots. The original ...

“One day this woman with a lovely plummy accent said, ‘And now, from America, for the interlude, we have a lovely young man with his new pop song, and it’s called ‘Tutti Frutti ...

His raunchy 1955 song 'Tutti Frutti,' even with its gay sex theme toned down for radio, became a sort of opening salvo of rock 'n' roll's entry into American life, starting with his nonsensical ...