Wondering if anyone here can post comments by Prince on Little Richard. I've heard many comments by Richard on Prince but, oddly, never a peep from Prince on Richard. Seems very weird to me that Prince never sited this guy as an influence. We've all heard Prince do his Elvis covers live. Did he ever cover Little Richard? Any pics of the two together or comments by Prince's inner circle on how Prince viewed Little Richard?

There was that reference on Jughead (spoken by Tony M) I guess. Can't think of much else.

Obviously these pivotal early rock and roll guys had influence on most / all modern popular music if you trace back far enough in the family tree. Beyond that though I don't hear a strong connection musically. Prince wasn't shy about citing his biggest influences throughout his career, so I think it is fair to conclude that there wasn't a strong influence there beyond Prince just being a bit of a musical omnivore generally etc.

Regardless of what he said (or didn’t say), Little Richard was clearly a huge influence. The fashion alone! There’s striking parallels in the general trajectory of their lives and underlying psychology too – Richard was kicked out of his home by his father at an early age (after catching him wearing his Mother's make-up apparently), was fiercely individualistic, tested every boundary and was unashamedly flamboyant in his youth but eventually succumbed to religious piety in later life, proclaiming that he was “no longer gay” and so on. Needless to say, musically virtually everyone owes something to Little Richard and he was doing the androgynous eccentric thing long before Bowie/Prince. A trailblazer in every sense.

chrisslope9 said:

Wondering if anyone here can post comments by Prince on Little Richard.

There's a whole sticky on that. https://prince.org/msg/8/463109

Check out this interview from 1972 by the BBC:

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1972-late-night-line-up-little-richard/2691775331059950/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos

That is the blueprint of Prince, 100 %!

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Funny.

paul McCartney on twitter :

https://twitter.com/PaulMcCartney?lang=it

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As far as I know, Prince played covers of "Kansas City" and "The girl can´t help it" both titles in Little Richard´s catalogue.

I read somewhere Little Richard gave Prince a bible, too.

IwonderMe said:

I read somewhere Little Richard gave Prince a bible, too.

https://www.youtube.com/w...vdpDD8RYr0