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"Born \nDecember 5th, 1932\nKey Tracks \n\"Tutti-Frutti,\" \"Good Golly Miss Molly,\" \"Long Tall Sally\"\nInfluenced \nJames Brown, Prince, Paul McCartney\n\n\"When I heard ['Long Tall Sally'], it was so great I couldn't speak,\" said John Lennon. \"I didn't want to leave Elvis, but this was so much better.\" Richard Penniman grew up wailing gospel in church in Macon, Georgia, and he carried his feverish foundation with him into rock &amp; roll: On songs like \"Lucille\" and \"Tutti-Frutti,\" he sounded like a preacher wrestling the devil to the ground. When he belted, \"I'm gonna rip it up/I'm gonna shake it up\" in 1956, Richard wasn't just singing about the weekend \u2014 his falsetto shrieks were demolishing the rules of pop singing. It was a voice that leapt with a fury out of transistor radios, leaving scorch marks on an entire generation of singers and musicians. Said Jimi Hendrix, who played in Richard's backing band, \"I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice.\" \n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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