By Derek Walker2023-06-07T14:33:00
Credited with being the original father of rock and roll, Little Richard careened between religion, sex, drugs and music. Derek Walker reviews I Am Everything, the documentary which charts his complicated life and sexuality
“A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop-bam-boom!”
If you want to know where rock and roll started, it’s in those words.
This was the genre’s Big Bang. This – the inspiration for huge, history-making artists like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones – was Little Richard.
When he died in 2020, people started noticing how little credit his impact had been given. Director Lisa Cortés was one. In the trailer for I Am Everything, she says her work: “explodes the white-washed history of rock and roll and shines a light on the originator.”
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