WOW sort of surprises me he was still alive. Seems like from days gone by.

Here's an excerpt from his IMDB biography:

<One of Richard's early bands had the young, then unknown singer James Brown (the Godfather of Soul), a fourteen-year-old keyboardist named Billy Preston, and the famous and legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix.>

He used to shop on Melrose in West Hollywood, according to shop owners there.

RIP Little Richard! Loved his music.

For some reason this news really made me feel bad, more than the loss of other beloved celebrities. Maybe it’s because his music was so much a part of my youth. I remember going to school dances and dancing like maniacs to his music. Thanks, Little Richard. You were loved.

I was really struck when I read about his passing this morning. Seems like a part of my teenage youth just disappeared. I’m also sad to hear about Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy passing also. I don’t think he was ever in very good health after the tiger attack. I could be wrong about that, but seems like I read it several years ago.

Roy of Siegfried and Roy...passed also....

Little Richard was one of a small number of giants whose originality and innovations permanently changed popular music. It's hard to overstate his influence.

He was also a pioneer insofar as also being a gay African American in the public eye. He needed to shield his preference for flamboyance less and less as the years went on but I've often wondered if he would have been given as much leeway in those years as he got had he been less prominent. I somehow don't think so. There were other well respected gay men of lesser stature in music, like Billy Preston, whose orientation was well known to friends and colleagues but who kept it out of his public persona.

I was fortunate enough to see Little Richard perform in Bakersfield CA on 1955....at a skating rink on Kentucky Street.

A great show!

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That makes me so sad. I read he was 87 years old and died from bone cancer. One of my BIL's died from that, and it's a horrible, painful thing.

I always liked Little Richard and his music. He had such an engaging and interesting personality, it would be hard not to like him.

Rest in Peace, Little Richard, finally free from pain and suffering.

I saw Little Richard at an open air concert here in Seattle at one of our public parks sometime back in the late 60's or very early 70's. I remember him rocking on that piano so hard, I thought he would break the thing!!

I just found a video of "Good Golly Miss Molly" and did the twist in my kitchen...I am now huffin and puffin! LoL. No one to see me except the dust bunnies!