when was this video

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related


recorded ?
simularities in the look beetween
little richard and prince ara more then obvius.

Even their gestures and arm movements are so identical. And I don't have to say how close they look alike - Prince looks like Little Richard.

maybe little richard has a son named prince?

I don't blame him one bit for trying to emulate the king of rock n' roll.

OML! It's a typhoon hairdo!

Similarities, but I think it's a stretch.

prince has very few original things. he took from lil richard, hendrix, sly stone, james, miles...i had a video of a performance of sly stone and he had the same look and same moves with guitar as prince while playing computer blue on that "live" video. a clone.

ToraToraDreams said:

even this king of rock`n roll COPIED his whole look of the real ORIGINAL ONE:


ESQUERITA.

I remember when I was real young I saw an interview with Little Richard and he talked about Prince. During the interview they showed a picture of Michael Jackson and Little Richard talked about him and then they showed a picture of Prince (it was a real close up and it was from the When Doves Cry poster). They asked him what he thought about him and Little Richard said: “I don’t know where he came from but honey I love you….he is great.” They talked about how Prince looks like Little Richard and some other stuff. I was only like 7 so I barely remember the interview.

I thought it was funny how Little Richard said “he is me” during the Purple Rain premier. I liked how Eddie (looking a little funny himself) made fun of him by saying: "Prince is me in this generation”. Good moment..... I thought there would have been more stars there...or interviewed.

I always wondered where the lace look during the Purple Rain concert came from…. During the tour is when he real took on the Little Richard / Jimmy Hendricks look. I remember a band mate said that Prince started looking like he was wearing his grandmother’s curtains.

HamsterHuey said:

The early Diamonds and Pearls typhoon looked a lot better. It got to long and too big durning the second album.

check out Baby I'm a star performance from the Live Video of purple Rain [Syracuse]. P certainly wore his influences openly and combined them to create something unique, unlike say Lenny K, who just rips people off!.

Typhoon hairdo - check
Eyeliner - check
Skinny 'stache - check
Big necklace - check
Tight, low-slung pants - check
High heels - check

Genesia said:

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Gee if P took all that stuff from Little Richard were did David Bowie and all the glam rockers get it from. (LOL)

P was influnced by Rich sure but he is a long way from being his clone.

laurarichardson said:

I never said he was. Did you watch the youtube? I was commenting on that, specifically.

What's wrong with being like little Richard? But Prince is cuter.
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prime said:

Prince stole it all from the new romantic movement in the UK.

HamsterHuey said:

I LOVE that Prince found the new romantics - that was his best era by a mile.

abigail05 said:

Jimi and Pete Townsend were rockin' that military jackets and ruffles before the New Romantics were out of diapers.

Genesia said:

Environmental records - double check

You can't do a Richard thread without including the "big toe... her'on" clip...

Genesia said:

yeah but Adam Ant looked a lot cooler than those guys. To this day my wife thinks he is the hottest shit ever.

HamsterHuey said:

at any rate...the Typhoon was one gay-ass hairstyle

thebanishedone said:

If any1 should have been Prince's dad and it wasn't John L. I could see it being Little Richard being his dad and Jimi Hendrix being his cousin or older brother.

I object!

HamsterHuey said:

Prince is looking so delicious right there.

gyro34 said:

Delicious is right - looks like he has a big apple fritter on his head.

Even though Little Richard is the KING of rock and roll and glam, he borrowed his look heavily from Esquerita.

abigail05 said:

Really? coz the ammount of gay people I seen with that hairstyle I could count on one big toe up in my boot!! Homophobe!

Ya'll are motherfucking tripping Besides that Typhoon-There is no way Prince looks anything like Little Richard.