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Paul McCartney and Bill Joel singe the Lennon-McCartney "Meet the Beatles" classic, "I Saw Her Standing There", Shea Stadium, July, 2008. It was here in around 1965 the Beatles invented stadium concerts, I believe.
2/ Here the Beatles sing "I Saw Her Standing There". The Beatles were huge Little Richard fans, so the woooos are straight Little Richard.
3/ And here, the master - Little Richard - pays back his students - the Beatles with "I Saw Her Standing There". #PaulMcCartney #LittleRichard #Beatles
🍩 No es por nada, pero les traemos el mejor hilo del mundo. ¿Por qué? No hay por qué (?). O mejor dicho, si, porque junta a #LosSimpson y el #Rock. ¿Hace falta decir algo más? Miiiiiilhoooooouseeeeee! 🍩 
Think about it. The Beatles basically started as a band playing Little Richard music. Jimi Hendrix started at Richard's guitarist. Jerry Lee Lewis stole Richard's entire act.
The speed, volume, salaciousness and raucousness of Rock & Roll ALL came from Little Richard.
The speed, volume, salaciousness and raucousness of Rock & Roll ALL came from Little Richard.
Tutti Fruiti was actually a song about gay sex that Richard changed the lyrics for for the mainstream. You don't get more salacious than that. And he was doing that in FIFTIES. They yelping, screaming and hollering on record. WAY ahead of his time.
They way Richard played with androgyny LONG before Bowie did. The man was like form another universe. Never got the recognition, compensation and praise that he forever deserves. The @rockhall should be named after #LIttleRichard
Little Richard was the firecracker who set it all off. Right there at rock'n'roll's Big Bang, this ungovernable force transcending race, gender and sexuality. Literally a screaming queen. I met him once and it was like touching the hand of God. We owe him everything. RIP (it up).
With no Little Richard you don't get Hendrix, Iggy, Bowie, Bolan, Prince and so many others, right up to Janelle. I honestly think he's that important. Just immeasurably influential. The actual greatest.
When I met Little Richard, I wanted to know what he thought about Prince. He rated him, but "I'd prefer him with less profanity." Then a wicked smile. "I'll tell you this: he sure likes ME!" He gave me a photo of himself and a book about Jesus. (He gave those things to everyone.)
