Richard Penniman was a skyrocket. He was a dazzling light, and then he was gone. Like Buddy Holly, who gets an unforgettable sex scene in Charles White's biography The Life and Times of Little Richard, Richard Penniman was a skyrocket.
He was a dazzling light, and then he was gone. But where Holly was gone because he died in a plane crash, Little Richard was gone because one night in Australia, he mistook Sputnik for a message from God and proceeded to quit music and return to Jesus, or so he thought at the time.
In fact, he would continue to embody the spirit of rock and roll at its most incendiary until bone cancer got him at 87 on May 9.
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