[rockandroller]

He should be remembered as an avant-garde innovator who re-engineered the DNA code of post-WWII popular music. Little Richard’s newfangled concept of rock’n’roll diverged from easy listening tunes and jump blues of the early ’50s. Fusing together New Orleans R&B, boogie woogie’s driving left-handed bass shuffle rhythm, and pyrotechnical gospel, he delivered a dangerous, badass music nobody had exactly heard before.

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