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to be black and queer at that time must have been so hard but he was focused on the message and he was a clear pioneer of this genre of music. Put his music on and it will lighten your mood instantly; He was a genius and also, the drum intro to his song, Keep A-Knockin' was copied by Led Zeppelin for the intro to Rock 'N Roll... ❤
also interesting that Lemmy from Motörhead always said that he also was hugely inspired by Little Richard and that he also played Rock n Roll, he said Little Ricard was the Best, Lemmy is also not taking seriously like Little Ricard was, another level, people especially mainstream just don’t understand what is all behind the music…
While Little Richard is one of my favourite artists and there is no denying his importance, THE most criminally overlooked artist is Bill Haley - someone who charted with a rock 'n' roll song ('Crazy, Man Crazy') in 1953, long before Richard, Presley, Berry, Lewis, Holly, Diddley (etc) had hits!
And what about Little Richard and Bill together in the "Don't Knock The Rock" movie and the great promotional shots -Bill and Little Richard together and also these two giants and Alan Freed ? This so important piece of history is conspicuous by its absence in Lisa Cortés' " I Am Everything" ! Could not watch the other documentary yet which was broadcast on BBC2 in April.
I’d say sister rosetta Thorpe is way more important and unappreciated. Without her there’d be no little Richard, she played the guitar oh and she was a woman
Sounds really interesting. Almost the whole of popular culture in the 20th century at least is born out of things that white, traditionalist Conservative movements are against, but those Conservative movements would later adopt those thing's as there own, the far-right even more so. Skinheads are a good example of this, but even recently we can see an emergence of a far right movement in heavy metal music, despite the fact it was inherently anti-establishment and anti-Christian in its inception. Even the majority of memes adopted by the far right were taken from artists who want nothing to do with them. So much of popular music is of course inspired by blues initially. Even cinema was heralded by a lot of immigrants, women, Jews, many major figures of early cimema were LGBTQ+. Then along came the capitalists and turned Hollywood into a 'wholesome all American enterprise'. But of course, because the majority of artists are often liberal or left leaning, those influences inevitably sneak in through the back door every now and then.
* just as a little addition to what I said above, I don't believe Christianity is inherently 'far-right', but traditionalist movements will use organised religion as a standard to justify what they do, even if they have to completely twist the messages of that religion to do it.
I agree with all of that except for your skinhead reference.. original/genuine skinhead culture was born out of embracing Jamaican immigration to the u.k. in the 60s... you're referring to people that just stole elements of the look in an effort to look intimidating..
Disagree with this simplistic theory so much.. Hollywood has always been a capitalist industry .. And given that they were cranking out films such as Birth of A Nation as early as 1915 doesn't that prove its inception wasn't some super liberal venture
As a leftie I have to say this theory doesn't really stack up for me.. Hollywood has always been a capitalist venture.. And as one of the earliest movies was w d Griffiths birth of a nation (or to give its earlier title The Clansman) along with the countless blackface movies etc I'd suggest hollywood Hastings always just followed the buck..
