We see clips of Little Richard performing and being interviewed on “American Bandstand,” The Merv Griffin Show” and “The Mike Douglas Show.” In 1964, Jimi Hendrix joined Little Richards ...

in 1932, Little Richard was openly gay from a young age, kicked out of his family home by a father who expected him to be more masculine. Performing on the "chitlin' circuit" of Black-centered ...

[“Love Me Do” by The Beatles] – ♪ Love, love me do ♪ Ringo: To play on the same stage as Little Richard was huge. [A photo of The Beatles performing on stage.] Ringo: And then, lo and ...

Because you see that he really is a divided soul. Q: There’s so much wonderful footage in the film of Little Richard performing and giving interviews, things I’d never seen before. Are there ...

Little Richard is the originator and my first idol ... into androgyny onstage and had a more graceful, feline way of performing than other rock gods of the time. Though he kept his sexuality ...

But “Little Richard: I Am Everything” does something ... At the same time, he was a gay and effeminate boy with a flair for performing and a love for transformational figures like Sister ...

Throughout his life, Little Richard veered from being proudly gay in an era when homosexuality was acutely taboo – performing with leg propped on piano and hips rocking suggestively – to ...

Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman ... who were openly queer and have really dynamic ways of performing,” says Cortés. “But he puts them into his own gumbo — this anarchic rebellious rock and roll ...

Following his secular music hiatus, Little Richard released “Great Gosh A’Mighty” in 1986, included in his album “Lifetime Friend,” and re-entered the world of performing. He went on to ...

Richard joined what was then known as the chitlin circuit, performing with various African ... backgrounding provides a vivid canvas for Little Richard’s resplendent emergence in the mid-1950s ...