1972: LITTLE RICHARD interview is the GOAT | Late Night Line-Up | Classic BBC music | BBC Archive 

lmao

right on the spot, lol

EXACTLY

Omg 😊😊😊😊😊😊

​@@SRose-vp6ew do you believe he became straight?

Lol

The other half to that statement which he didn't get out is ...." He just confident " 😂❤

He's not conceited, he's convinced.

I LAUGHED SO HARD LITERALLY IN TEARS AT 2 in the morning lol

Yes he was

very much, indeed. and very brave for his time.

little richard is a by product of abuse and rape and then mind controlled. He is another tool of the machine to try and pervert people's mind.

Yes ❤

My fav quote and now never say that anyone is ever ahead of their time which goes: "No one is ever ahead of their time, Little Richard was, by design - right on time, it was the world that was behind!"

Naa. Only a young idiot would say that.

Facts

Nah not even...Prince wasn't gay mf

Stop it

He was a lot less inhibited and a lot funnier, a very bright soul.

Talk about depth of character ✨

His drugs.

He was rejected by the liberal media because he denounced homosexuality

Him and Chuck Berry....Elvis was a performer but did nothing to move writing music as a songwriter forward. And that Elvis didn't play or use any instruments, depending on other people to write for him....eh. Sure, Elvis strummed his guitar or whatever, but his show was his hips, voice and swagger.

Facts, he even announced that he wasn’t gay anymore 😅

Because people don’t respect rock n roll enough.

​​@@gedionsamuel2256 Which ultimately just meant he didn't engage in homosexual activities. I think he reached a point where he wasn't judging homosexuals or homosexuality, more that he personally felt his relationship with god would be better if he didn't engage in that behavior. Everyone's got their superstitions or cultural habits and that's fine, as long as they aren't judging others, and judging others was never really his bag.

Lol😂

I like to put it on

Not at all. Our planet is beauty itself, it's our mother, it has just about everything on it that reflects the divine. We all have that in us too, yes all of us.

@@petergedd9330 that's the meaning of life

TMH GOD YESHAU HAMACHSHIACK JESUS OF NAZARETH MADE THE HEAVENS N THE EARTH.❤❤❤

Our planet has no powers except what God gives, allows, or man does to it. God's the creator of all, above, & below.

God created our planet and Little Richard. ❤

Hahaha! He said it with a super straight face too!

Wit the straight face then said he’s not conceited sent me 😂

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 he was a character forreal!

🤣🤣

Now I wanna see pics of his siblings 😂😂

Could you imagine being there?! Wow.

Actually it was pretty bad

Those who were there generally agree that Bill Haley and His Comets stole the show.

​@@ThisIsJ.Nicole for real. Those who were... I wonder if they realized the history they were witnessing in real time.

I saw Gerry Lee Lewis , Little Richard and Chuck Berry on the same bill at Wembley. All smashed it

People in the past weren’t as bad as they make out. People thinking all of a sudden they are the good ones. Laughable

@@subg8858 really? People still feed babies to alligators? It was worse in the south..

You NAILED it Sir!! From mick jagger to Bowie to Hendrix to Elton John to Prince, Michael Jackson etc…..and every rock star in between, owes a tremendous debt to little Richard. He is truly the originator. He had NO PRECEDENT. There was NO ONE like Richard Penniman Prior to him coming onto the scene and no one since had quite the FIRE and charisma Richard has in large quantity!!

Yes.

@@mastomasto6197go by

Yes

@Henry Galhardo He said it himself, actually.

Well after all this was Great Britain and not the USA.

@@arturwittensoeltner8729 he did this in America too.

Disgusting 🤢

Agreed. I think that's one thing that gets lost in translation. This was WAAAAY out there for the time. So much so, that NO ONE else in show business - woman or man, black or white etc. was this audacious, free & authentic. Fearless even. ESPECIALLY as a black man. It was just unthinkable to 'some people' that someone like him even existed. He was so authentic & free that no one bothered him because they didn't know what to do with him. They were too scared to. Lol. The most they ever did was try to ignore him & minimize his contribution. And they did that for YEARS. That's why you always heard him exclaiming it LOUDLY in every interview & every chance he got until they FINALLY gave him his propers in his last years. As he said, he wasn't conceited. It wasn't out of arrogance the way he would exclaim. He knew that if he didn't state the truth about his contribution himself, they wouldn't give it to him & that they'd try to ascribe it to someone else - because he was black AND gay. This was a BRILLIANT man. He knew JUST what he was doing when he would use his persona to go on these rants about who he was, about how beautiful he was, & how he was the CREATOR. It worked to. Because they FINALLY gave him his props - and when they FINALLY did (on the AMA'S), he cried in humility. Because that's all he ever wanted. All he wanted was them (his industry, peers, & the world) to acknowledge the TRUTH & for them to give him the respect he DESERVED - not as a gift to him. But because he'd EARNED it. Little Richard was to show business what Ali was to the sports world. "Ahead of his time" is actually a HUGE understatement.

​@@roseroyce15I also think that because the BBC did such a great job of either preserving/restoration of this video has something to do with it getting lost in translation. Because this video is such high quality, the colors are so vibrant, and the sound is so clear, it's hard to tell that this was so long ago. It looks like it could've been filmed just a few years ago.

it is -- and there's a new documentary out on little richard's life, too :)

​@@ronniegladden7387 I didn't know that. What's the film called?

@@fredneedle123literally little Richard

@@enriquesalazar6101 Thank you

It is

There are, or is. Lady Gaga.

Drewbie H+ Beautiful black people!

@@Poetic_Justice1962 I've never seen Gaga throw shade like that at someone she was sharing equal billing with. I wish she would though!

Nas X?

​@@VelvetLovesU Trash

If the Pharaohs drove in reverse with the trunk open, then sure.

Except Chuck Berry who "shall be mashed".

He’s good but not as good as the Beatles

@@pinkfloydmeddle6692 1 man vs a bunch of manufactured basic white men yeeee okay

He made the beatles. Look it up.

He’s great, but he doesn’t touch the Beatles

He is bigger than the Beatles to a lot of people. I don't count polls and spin. This musical expression was build on terror, blood, sweat and TEARS. REAL sht!! There wouldn't even be a Beatles without all the pioneers. Not taking away for their talent. No debate. Straight facts.

You trying to give white man credit for this black legend. Cut the crap

When/where was this Larry Williams interview? I can't imagine him being the kind of man impressed by white limeys copying his songs.

​@@nogoofystvRock n roll knows no colour

I THINK 1 IN 10, TO 20 ,OR 50 ,TRILLION

YESSS

Once a generation talent/personality

He's the Queen of Rock n Roll.

If you have to self-proclaim, are you really?

@@jamminjohn LR said it himself.

Chuck Berry

He had to self-proclaim, because no-one (of the time) did it for him. Still underrated, massively. Prince, JB, MJ, Aerosmith, Stones, The Scouse lot, Bruno Mars, Bowie, Huey Lewis... List goes on. None would've happened if it weren't for him.

Living with what truth?

He gave his life to The Lord so he really found out The Truth.

He was of his time, not ahead of it at all. You just misunderstand the time. Great man.

​@@DRourk When people copy you decades later. They say you were ahead of his time. Maybe current people are just bland.

​@@PeakTrainingProgramThat's not accurate according to his book. He always liked men he just had lower libido as he got older and stopped having bisexual orgies...

Lady Blue you having a laugh! Elvis didn't originate anything. Obviously if you look at the social times of American Jim Crow and segregation Elvis the imitator would have been far more socially hygienic and marketable for the Dominant anglo pre civil rights America the Little Richard. Paul Mc Cartney the Beatles Prince and all tbe others "took" from Little Richard not Elvis. Little Richard was indeed the Architect of Rock and Roll and obvious given the history of racism in America where the "code" was for a black person to be subservient and subordinate to white of course people would find him "to full of himself" for their liking. No Little Richard was the original and not the imitator. He didn't copy anyone whereas Elvis did.

High?

I can hear the cocaine. 😂

@@LAkadianit was probably good cocaine as well…this is a good high, mood is stable just hype

No I dont think he was condescending at all, neither did Little Richard, he was just being himself, I thought he allowed Little Richard to express himself.

Was not condescending at all, you see things that are not there

Yes, the Ali reminder. I thought the same thing😅

Right!😂

What you’re seeing here is mainly drugs I think

@@mr.mcchannel442 I've tried and done many drugs and much of some. Nothing like this has ever happened as a result, so no, it's not mainly drugs. He may have been high, but he was always "Little Richard"

@@mr.mcchannel442 Nah, that's him. He's just buzzed.