the cnn film little richard is up next. ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ ♪ ♪ man: little richard, it's now 16 years since you had your first hits. oh, yes. do you realize that -- well, you must realize that at your performances now there are people who weren't even alive when you first began? yes, but i have woke them up now. everybody that wasn't alive when i started and was gone, i have brought the spirit and put it on them. were you always so shy? no, i'm not. a lot of people say i'm shy, but i let it all hang out, every bit. the love, the gentleness, the tenderness, the kindness, you ain't supposed to hide them. you got it. god gave it. show it to the world. announcer: ladies and gentlemen, if you will, a man who's become a legend in his own time, little richard! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ good golly, miss molly ♪ ♪ sure like to ball ♪ that music, that beat, his voice. the ♪ oooh ♪ "my god, who is that? who is that?" ♪ can't hear your mama call ♪ ♪ good golly, miss molly ♪ i'd never seen any of it before. ♪ sure like to ball ♪ ♪ good golly, miss molly ♪ jagger: just, like, taking your clothes off. ♪ sure like to ball ♪ if there's a piano, get on it. he was everything. ♪ he spit on every rule there was in music. ♪ king: he created the template for the rock-'n'-roll icon. porter: sorry, y'all. it wasn't elvis. jones: he was like a meteor arriving. woman: a comet. man: a quasar. king: his dna is everywhere. it's like, how do you refer to the air? how do you refer to the sky? ♪ little richard: i'm the emancipator. i'm the architect. i'm the one that started it all. ♪ ♪ let it all hang out! with the beautiful little richard from down in macon, georgia. i want you all to know that i am the bronze liberace. shut up. man: typically we speak of legacy in the laudatory. the legacy of little richard is complex. please, please. i'd rather do it myself. watching his interviews over the decades, you can see the various different versions. i'm not conceited. [ audience shouts indistinctly ] i'm convinced. you could see him crafting his legacy, presenting his story over and over again in different ways. i was gay all my life. i believe i was one of the first gay people to come out. but god let me know that he made adam to be with eve, not steve. ♪ man: what was his life that he experienced such delight... ♪ he's coming, he's coming ♪ man: ...and such terror at the same time? little richard: you know, i will get up off an orgy and go pick up my bible. newman: it's almost like having a split personality. king: he's too much. he's too much for everyone. glenn: people want it to be a thing. richard really didn't have a thing. as the progeny, we must understand what kind of spirit he was and how this thing tore him asunder sometimes. whoo! king: he opened up a way. the opening that says something like, "we can get to this place, but i may not get there with you." ♪ [ bell clanging ] little richard: i'm from a little country town. [ train horn blows ] macon, georgia. everybody was wondering what was i, who was i, and where was i going? but i knew all the time. i wanted to be a star. [ singing indistinctly ] when i was a little boy, there wasn't any rock 'n' roll. ♪ save my soul ♪ you know, everybody, you know, that was that old thing. and i thought that was the best thing i ever heard in my life. my mother would be in the backyard washing our clothes on what you call a rub board. ♪ there was a lot of blues. walking down the streets, you would see black singers playing the guitar. ♪ see my woman, tell her hurry home ♪ ♪ ain't had no lovin' since she been gone ♪ ♪ got to step it up and go ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ little richard: my mother had 12 children. we had to sleep on pallets on the floor. and my mother had to cook beans every day. we couldn't get enough. you know, 'cause it's 12 kids. you know, a big old pot of rice and collard greens. my mother was so -- she was so sweet to me. my granddaddy had a old piano, but i couldn't play. i just hit every key, and everybody'd be about to say, "oh!" he was always banging on the piano every time you see him. we would always sneak down there and be looking in the kitchen window. little richard: everybody wanted to help me to play, but i just didn't know how to memorize those keys. i used to hang out with his brothers, the younger ones, and sisters. his daddy, charles "bud" penniman, was very strict on him, very strict. he was a minister who owned a small nightclub and had a bootleg house at the same time. ♪ yeah! ♪ jackson: macon is known for its churches. it's the conservative religious town. sundays, his mother would get him up and he'd attend the baptist church with her at new hope. collier: if you sat in the baptist church, you don't move at all. jackson: and then it would be time for him to go to the a.m.e. church with this father. collier: you sit in the holy roller, you don't sit down at y'all. ♪ lord, lord, lord, lord ♪ little richard: all the children would go to this church. ♪ oh, jesus ♪ ♪ must have been jesus ♪ ♪ oh ♪ little richard: i would get there, and i would sing. but they wouldn't let me sing that much 'cause i wouldn't stop. and then people started hearing little turns and things in my voice and started requesting me. people used to come to me when i was a little boy for me to pray for them, and my mother used to say that you're crazy. robinson: i will say this a hundred thousand times, the south is the home of all things queer, of the different, of the non-normative, of the other side, of the gothic, of the grotesque. note that queerness is not just about sexuality, but about a presence in a space that is different from what we require or expect, different from the norm. little richard: and, you know, back in that day, you have sunday clothes. so i would take my mother's sunday pins, her little brooches and things, and put them on my monday jacket and my tuesday shirt. i wore my mother's curtains, the sheets, put on some makeup on my face. my daddy'd like to kill me. they called him a sissy, a punk, a faggot. jackson: when he came to town and whites were exposed to him, it was kind of a shock. ♪ i am tired ♪ little richard: my dad didn't like my actions and my ways. i was born deformed from a child. one of my legs was long, and one of them's small. and this is my long arm, and this is my short arm. from -- i -- he -- it was just... i never could do nothing good. he told me to get out of the house, that he didn't -- he didn't want me there no more, that he hated me. he says that, "i wanted seven boys, and you are messing it up." because i was gay, he put me out. porter: i can only imagine. i've lived through my versions of that. it's debilitating. it's soul crushing. and it can be deadly. ♪ with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! uuuhhhh. here, i'll take that! woohoo! enter the $10,000 powered by protein max challenge. ♪ ♪ struggling with the highs and lows of bipolar 1? 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[ engine starts ] collier: ann and her husband actually took richard in, let him stay upstairs. a white club in my hometown called ann's tic toc. jackson: you know, what we would think of as "a gay club." it was kind of like a speakeasy. you had to know where to go and how to get in. i used to play there, and i was singing blues, and i was singing gospel. ♪ all in my room ♪ ♪ music everywhere ♪ my favorite singer was sister rosetta tharpe. ♪ this black woman could play. the mother of rock 'n' roll. there is no other mother. sister rosetta tharpe shifted a lot of what we thought was possible for black sound outside of the church. ♪ everywhere that i go ♪ ♪ everywhere that i be ♪ robinson: the purpose is to drum on the piano or on the guitar until you get to the mountaintop, until you reach the ecstatic space. ♪ when the spirit comes... ♪ sing in the morning, sing in the evening ♪ ♪ sing in the middle of the day ♪ robinson: ...that is the rockin' and the rollin'. ♪ jesus is mine ♪ [ cheers and applause ] little richard: one night, sister rosetta tharpe came through. ♪ stewart: the macon city auditorium is a venue that many people played in the height of their careers. ♪ richard worked there as a teenager. little richard: and i went backstage. and i was singing a sister rosetta tharpe song called "strange things happening every day." and sister tharpe said, "i have a little boy, and he said he could beat me singing." and she brought me out there. my mother said, "go on, boy!" ♪ jesus is the holy life ♪ ♪ turning darkness into light ♪ ♪ there are strange things happening every day ♪ ♪ na, na, na, na, mm, mm ♪ ♪ and every day ♪ little richard: that's the first time i ever was onstage. and i was up there just screaming and singing. ♪ every day ♪ ♪ there are strange things, and they're happening every day ♪ little richard: that was the greatest thing ever happened to me. and so i had to get out of macon. plus, i was ready to shine. little richard: i was working in atlanta, georgia, at the royal peacock, and i met a singer named billy wright. he wore green suits and green and gold shoes. i'd never seen a man dressed like that. ♪ yes, i remember ♪ ♪ all the things that we used to do ♪ little richard: i idolized him. it wasn't his voice that got me. i liked the way he looked. billy wright. he had the high pompadour. the pancake makeup. anthony: the mascara and the little pencil mustache. he was also openly gay. little richard: i had already started wearing the hair, but when i saw him, i started sweeping it back on the side. anthony: and then billy helped richard get his first record deal. little richard: they recorded me in the lobby of the radio station. wasn't no studio. ♪ taxi, taxi, take me anywhere ♪ it was popular in macon and in atlanta. ♪ taxi, taxi... ♪ king: richard becomes more famous in macon, and his father starts playing these songs around the clock at the club. ♪ richard said for the first time in his life, his father was proud of him. and bud penniman actually welcomes richard back into the family home. one night, i would sit there all night and watch people get off the bus, you know? you know, you understand. and he got off. i said, "oh, boy." he said, "i play piano." i said, "i sing." so we got together. king: he had a flamboyant, wild-child style. he would stand up while playing piano. hadley: esquerita, who is also queer, taught him how to play piano. he's a hard guy to get along with, but he taught me how to play. thank you, esquerita, wherever you are. robinson: i think when people talk about billy wright or esquerita's influence, they're like, "oh, well, little richard just stole his whole swag." i think that's not exactly what's happening. it is another case of witness. they are kind of like the mirrors that come into your life to show you who you really are. ♪ sounds so sad. isn't that sad? whoo-whee, it make you cry. that was my daddy's favorite song. it was called "chain of love." ♪ king: richard told his father he could help take care of the family financially, but he didn't have a way to get around. so he told me he was gonna help me get a car. but he died that friday night. when i came from the club, he was dead. richard's best friend shot him. ♪ ♪ in order to help support his family, he's a dishwasher at a greyhound bus station. i was making $15 a week, and couldn't eat in the restaurant where i was fixing the stuff. -they wouldn't let you eat? -no, you couldn't eat there. you couldn't go to the bathroom either. i loved my mother so much, and i was determined to be something, to make something out of myself to help her. hadley: he's still working the touring circuits. and he's part of groups that are touring all over the south. 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[ applause ] little richard: ah, ladies and gentlemen, good evening. ♪ baby ♪ ♪ don't you wish your man had long hair like mine? ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ vera: art rupe and his a&r man, "bumps" blackwell, listened to little richard's demo. didn't think much of him. but richard was constantly pestering the secretaries, and the persistence paid off. rupe said, "okay. meet him down in new orleans. he's playing down there. do a session at cosimo's with him." blackwell: the back of a furniture store on rampart street -- that's where we were recording. tyler: very small place. it looked like a hot-dog stand. man: when you first saw and heard little richard, what were your impressions of him? wow. wow. i was beautiful. and they wasn't used to being around no young, good-looking guy like me. i'm not conceited, either. little richard came in flitty, running, and he was very -- well, he was very beautiful. little richard: when i went in, they wanted me to sound like ray charles and b.b. king. ♪ i'm all alone ♪ ♪ alone in this world ♪ ♪ i'm all alone ♪ they wouldn't let me sing like little richard. they had me imitating these people. but blues was not what i really felt. i wanted to sound different. me and the young kids, we was tired of all that slow music. blackwell: i just stopped the session because we just were not getting anywhere. so they take a lunch break, and they go over to the dew drop inn. all of the boosters, rounders, pimps, whores was hanging around, and there was a piano. and that was when i began to know and understand richard. ♪ ♪ little richard: they didn't know that i played piano. so i started singing "tutti frutti" loud as i can. ♪ a-wop-bop-a-loo-mop a-good hot damn ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, good booty ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, good booty ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, good booty ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, good booty ♪ ♪ if it don't fit, don't force it ♪ ♪ you can grease it, make it easy ♪ king: but the lyrics to "tutti frutti" are about anal sex. that's what they're about. they're about penetration. vera: bumps' ears prick up, and he says "that sounds like it could be a hit." ♪ tutti frutti ♪ but the lyrics were too lewd to ever get air play on the radio. so he spots dorothy across the room. dorothy says, "you think you could clean up this lyric?" man: pretty nasty lyric? yes, nasty. nasty, nasty. dorothy said they was dirty, and they wasn't that dirty -- dorothy, they was not that dirty! they were just as clean as you were. they say i needed her, so i accepted the fact that i did 'cause i didn't know the record business. ♪ vera: so they go back for the session in the afternoon. put richard on the piano. knew right off the bat it was different when he said, "wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom." i said "what the hell is that?" and they did a couple of takes, and he sends it back to rupe. and rupe said "yeah, this is different, man." wasn't nothing out like it. and i was scared because didn't nobody sound like that. i said, "man, they gonna laugh at me." put it out, and it -- boom. ♪ wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ a wop bop a loo bop a lop ba ba ♪ one night, i was sitting at the house in macon, georgia, my mama and them. wlac from nashville, tennessee. gene noble. he said, "we got a new record by a guy called little richard, and it's taken this country by storm." he said, "it's the most requested record we ever had." i said, "ma, that's me." they didn't know i was little richard. [ laughs ] i said "that's me, ma." i said, "i'm a star." she said, "shut your mouth, boy." i said, "i'm a star." ♪ a wop bop a loo bop a lop ba ba ♪ ♪ this black music was so intense. it was so full of power and rhythm. it was so full of a fervency and having fun. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, tutti frutti ♪ king: sort of like the big bang, a shot out of a cannon. so explosive. it's so ferocious. ♪ tutti frutti ♪ king: it just sounds like nothing else. ♪ a wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom ♪ ♪ porter: little richard's music is so infectious. infused with so much joy. ♪ king: all of this postwar aching, yearning, teenage horniness and desire to be erotically free. put it into a musical form that people could feel. ooh-whee! (mom) bringing in a new roommate to save money - is that the plan? (dad) well we gotta find some way to save. so say hi to glen. from work. (glen) hey. that's my mom. 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[ laughs ] he came to my show. i came out in a big cape, and i would drop the cape to the floor. i was shaped a certain way. and they had never seen it before. he said, "oh, if i knew you would turn out like that, me and you would have kicked it a long time ago." [ laughs ] vera: richard was back in new orleans for a recording session. and he insisted upon using his road band instead of these crème de la crème musicians in new orleans. ♪ well, long, tall sally, she's built for speed ♪ ♪ she got everything that uncle john need, oh, baby ♪ ♪ i saw uncle john with long, tall sally ♪ ♪ he saw aunt mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley ♪ ♪ oh, baby, yeah ♪ we upped the tempo, and we got the words going so fast that pat boone couldn't get his mouth together to do it. little richard: he couldn't get that rhythm right. -nobody can. -[ laughs ] vera: "long tall sally" became an even bigger hit. and it actually became a gold record. sold a million copies. ♪ well, i saw uncle john with bald-head sally ♪ ♪ he saw aunt mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley ♪ ♪ oh, baby ♪ ♪ yes, baby ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ king: little richard has an incredible string of hits. little richard: "tutti frutti," "good golly, miss molly," "long tall sally," "slippin' and slidin'," "jenny, jenny," "rip it up," "ready teddy." ♪ ♪ lucille ♪ ♪ won't you do your sister's will ♪ ♪ lucille ♪ ♪ won't you do your sister's will ♪ ♪ you ran off and married but i love you still ♪ the first songs that you love that your parents hate is the beginning of the soundtrack of your life. and in my case, it was most definitely "lucille." ♪ i asked my friends about her but all their lips were tight ♪ ♪ lucille ♪ little richard gave me the fuel to rebel really, really early. i definitely stole some little richard records. i can't remember which, because i stole lots of records. ♪ little richard: i remember when i played my first date, they had me on this tour called the top ten show. ruth brown, fats domino, lavern baker. but i was at the bottom as an added attraction. and when the tour was over, i was the one headlining. ♪ vera: nobody could follow him, so he had to close the shows everywhere he played. little richard: everybody was afraid of me because i was unpredictable. they didn't know what i was going to do. i'd go up in the balcony of the auditorium and i would hide, and when they said "little richard," i would jump out the back, and the promoter would be, "oh, lord." and everybody'd be hollering and screaming. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪ if we want a more viable future for our kids, we need to find more sustainable ways of doing things. america's plastic makers are investing billions of dollars in new technologies and creating plastic products that are more recyclable. durable. and dependable. our goal is a cleaner, healthier planet for generations to come. for a better tomorrow, we're focused on making plastics better today. mass general brigham -- when you need some of the brightest minds in medicine. this is a leading healthcare system with five nationally ranked hospitals, including two world-renowned academic medical centers. in boston, where biotech innovates daily and our doctors teach at harvard medical school and the physicians doing the world-changing research are the ones providing care. ♪ there's only one mass general brigham. each day is a unique blend of going, doing, and living. glucerna protein smart with 30 grams of protein to help keep you moving. uniquely designed with carbsteady to help manage blood sugar response. glucerna, bring on the day. 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"that's old richard. ain't nothing to him. ain't a thing to him." intuitively, it doesn't really quite make sense that the way that you would, like, make yourself more safe in america of that era is by exaggerating your queerness, right? i said, "richard, aren't you afraid of people thinking that you're different?" and he said, "no. i don't give a damn what they think." i know the evil feeling that you feel when you sing it and the beat. man: that two-beat pattern is the music brought to the united states of america by the communist conspiracy to corrupt teenagers. a means by which the white man and his children can be driven to the level with a negro. it is obviously negro music. "that black boy gonna come to town singing that black music and gonna run our children crazy." i'd be afraid for a white girl to look at me. this is a radical, radical time. this is the same moment as emmett till. little richard: bunch of white guys will follow you and hang you in a tree. nyong'o: so what's revolutionary about this black exuberance is this capacity to own the right to be in the world that gets emmett till murdered. ♪ hendryx: i remember doing shows where people would throw things at us onstage. you were driving a lot at night from one town to the next, and you wanted to stop for gas, but you were not welcome. being run out of restaurants at gunpoint because you walked in the wrong door. nyong'o: you could get thrown in jail for having long hair. it happened to little richard in texas. king: richard was arrested many times. little richard: i had police take me off stage in augusta, georgia, a few miles from my hometown, and beat me with blackjacks. they said, "you're singing nigger music to white kids." porter: in the face of insurmountable challenges, sometimes simply existing is a revolutionary act. we built a hell of a highway. and people are still driving on it. that's right. and they ain't paying no toll. no. [ laughs ] whoo! this is before the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. they are concerned that the old order of the day, the relationships between black and white teenagers, is going to become something that they can no longer contain. ♪ if she walks by, the men folks get engrossed ♪ waters: i used to go see all the rock 'n' roll movies. "the girl can't help it" was the very first time i actually saw him live, singing. ♪ ready, set, go, man, go ♪ ♪ i've got a gal that i love so ♪ ♪ i'm ready ♪ ♪ ready, ready, teddy, i'm ready ♪ it made the music even a thousand times better than it already was for me. he was gay, but i didn't really know that then. i knew something was different. he just became part of my identity. and little richard's mustache i wear to this day for over 50 years in a twisted tribute to him. and so "the girl can't help it" spread the word of rock 'n' roll to places that it hadn't quite gotten to yet. jones: the film came to britain. and it was so different from anything that i heard or seen. he was giving me more confidence that that's what i wanted to do. because of the rock 'n' roll films, little richard became one of the main characters in rock 'n' roll. you know, there was fats domino, chuck berry, elvis presley, and jerry lee lewis, and then, of course, little richard. you know, it's like the big five. but richard was -- was the strongest. think hairspray's stuck in one dimension? think again. flex any style... with hairspray that flexes with you. new tresemmé hairspray. ♪ ("un monde pliable" by jeongpill song) ♪ ( ♪ ♪ ) (camera shutters) ( ♪ ♪ ) (camera shutters) ( ♪ ♪ ) ( ♪ ♪ ) ( ♪ ♪ ) did we just get hustled? there's no way they were 70. interesting. hm? it's both an electric and a gas car. yeap. quite the paradox. hmmmm? hmmmm? hmm? hmmmm? so jj's for lunch? the first ever lexus rx plug-in hybrid. electric for short trips... gas for long. it really is both. ♪ ♪ old school wisdom, with a passion for what's possible. that's what you get from the morgan stanley client experience. you get listening more than talking, and a personalized plan built on insights and innovative technology. you get grit, vision, and the creativity to guide you through a changing world. ♪ was there a lot of sex going on? oh, yes. oh, night and day. all night. i had all these orgies going on. everybody like to jack -- masturbate. everybody loves to. everybody liked to go to orgies. everybody. some people wish they never had to leave. you know, i don't know why everybody say, "[gasps] oh." i just loved whatever came. you know, i didn't refuse nothing. if you knocked on my door, and i wanted more, for sure. oh, she is a whooper. they should just keep lee and take angel off. [ laughs ] richard's fantasies are the greatest on earth. i believe that if he'd have been a screenwriter, he would have at least 9,988 films that would be extreme hits now. he said, "i want you to meet lee angel." i said, "do you really like her, richard?" he said, "yeah. she got some good stuff." little richard: she's a wonderful girl. you know, she's beautiful. she's loving. she's kind. but angel is a girl, she just enjoys sex. and everybody does. i said, "oh. when'd you start screwing women?" well, he slept with me. and i guarantee i'm all woman. woman: how old were you when you met richard? 16. i'm walking down west broad street in savannah, and someone came over to me and told me, "little richard wants to meet you." my response was, "does he know i'm a girl?" he always introduced me on the stage just as i was his lady, and i would have to stand up. he asked me to marry him. i couldn't do it. 17. first time i was on my own. he knew that he had something inside of him that was hard to bring out. if it's not gonna come out now, it will come out eventually. little richard: i had been a flash of lightning for two years. in fact, you could just call me the living flame. i was at the height to make the big money. they had me on this tour going to sydney, australia. the engines of the plane had turned red -- really red. to me, i thought the plane was on fire. robinson: he feels and sees that angels are holding the plane up. he's overcome by this vision, and he's overcome by fear. little richard: then, after arriving in sydney, i was appearing in a stadium, and this ball of fire came over the stadium. i've always heard from a little boy that the world was going to end, and it was frightening, you know? i just felt that god was speaking to me. robinson: later, they say this is sputnik. but it doesn't matter. little richard said he saw a fireball after angels were holding up a plane, period. he's like, "i got to cut this tour short. i need to get out of here." little richard: i said, "after these dates, i'm going to stop singing. i'm going with the lord." one of the band boys said, "if you're serious, throw your rings in the water." we got on the ferry, and i threw them in the ocean. ♪ williams: we knew he was a rock 'n' roll star. why would he be coming to oakwood? word spread he's not coming to give a concert. he's coming as a student. winslow: oakwood was the premiere black seventh-day adventist school. very conservative. i was a little boy. my mother was a teacher. i was old enough to know who he was. but we didn't have rock 'n' roll on campus. it was a sin to listen to richard's music. williams: shortly after he got there, he gave his testimony. he said he saw himself in hell. he said he knew he wasn't ready to see the lord with what he was singing and how he was behaving. he called it devil music. little richard: the lord is coming soon, and i want to dedicate my life to god. and i want to study so i can help other people that are doing wrong where they can be saved, too. williams: he actually said if you have any of his records, he would buy them back. and he was going to have a bonfire. he burned the records. cut his hair. we just accepted him as a normal student. little richard lived in the dorm. he always had on a suit jacket. and he had a big bible that he carried with him. and if you saw him coming, you knew you might get stopped to be prayed with. i liked him. he had a real burden for the salvation of souls. and he liked to tell his story. i think little richard wanted to do god's will, but he lived a high lifestyle. he had a nice home that he bought for his mother and his family, and the church wasn't paying him. he wasn't an ordained minister. he needed money. newman: i was in a band called sounds incorporated. we're told that we're going on the road, and we're backing little richard. we're all saying "this is just -- this is beyond belief." we all figured that he'd retired, and we wouldn't hear of him again. all i can assume is don arden told richard it was a gospel tour. there's a rehearsal called. he had a sweater on him. i didn't recognize him. so we're not quite sure what to expect the first night. so, the band's riffing. you know, "now, from america, ladies and gentlemen, we have little richard," and he's not onstage. he's not there. from the balcony, we hear, "i am an atom bomb," eyes wide open and a cape, and he jumps off the balcony, ran up to the stage, and... ♪ a whole lot of shakin' goin' on ♪ ♪ whoo ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ a whole lot of shakin' goin' on ♪ newman: i was rocketed into the fifth dimension. i wasn't of this earth anymore. all of a sudden, richard jumped off the piano, lay on the floor as if he was dead. 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"well, of course it's true, child." and we'd just sit there for hours like kind of dciples in the dressing room. newman: i'd see paul on the side of the stage more than the rest of the band. all my screamy numbers were to do with him. little richard: paul was the one that wanted to do the hollers. i said, "whoo!" he would say, "whoo, ooh." "whoo, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh." then next thing you know, "whoo!" ♪ jagger: it was one of our first tours, and we were opening for little richard. we were basically a cover band. you know, we hadn't written much. i would be by the side of the stage every night watching. ♪ english bands, they were very static. watching richard, see, oh, we don't have to stand there. use the whole stage. richard would work that audience, getting them up out of their seats, swaying, shouting, waving their arms. well, alright! jagger: calling and responding stuff. 30 dates, so i saw little richard 30 times. you know what i mean? later on, i realized he was, like, doing church in a theater in northern england, basically. ♪ we'd like finish up with little richard's "long tall sally." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ gonna tell aunt mary ♪ ♪ 'bout uncle john ♪ ♪ he claim he has the misery ♪ ♪ but he's havin' a lot of fun ♪ ♪ oh, baby, yes, baby ♪ ♪ whoo ♪ ♪ baby ♪ ♪ some fun tonight, yeah ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ king: suddenly, you have black artists who were displaced from the charts. the innovations that they have brought have been stylized and adopted by others who... ♪ well, long, tall sally ♪ ♪ she's built for speed, she got everything that ♪ king: ...generate way more success than they are able to. in america, little richard is nowhere near where he was in the mid-1950s. hadley: this happens to a lot of black artists, going back to teenagers as fickle consumers. we want fresh deliverers of the innovation. hey, richard. welcome. [ cheers and applause ] you and chuck have kind of taken england by storm. how do you feel about other people borrowing your material? well, dick, i must be truthful. i am very grateful to know that my material is the type of material that the entertainers today would like to use. vera: he had a good body of work. he had graduated to the level of show business where you don't need a hit record to continue to work. little richard: want everybody to sing right with me. come on. ♪ wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom ♪ [ cheers and applause ] king: he was back to his old lifestyle. he called up bumps and says, "i want to change my image. i want to come out loud and gaudy as the living flame." winslow: we had a steamer trunk full of these outfits -- tassels and flamboyant, pretty material. and we played with everybody. but no matter where we went, richard stole the show. one time in atlantic city, janis joplin was killing the audience. she had gotten about seven standing ovations, and she literally passed out. and i'm standing there saying, "man, richard's in trouble." richard told me, "get back in the limousine, go back to the hotel, and bring me my mirror suit." they cut off all the lights, they put the spotlight on him, and he spun around like a glass ball. and those lights went everywhere. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ and janis joplin -- i can still see her face. and she said, "oh, my god." richard told all of them. let it all hang out with the beautiful little richard from down in macon, georgia. i want you all to know that i am the king of rock 'n' roll! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ lucille ♪ ♪ baby, satisfy my heart ♪ ♪ lucille ♪ ♪ baby, satisfy my heart ♪ ♪ i played for it, baby ♪ ♪ and gave you such a wonderful start ♪ ♪ aaah! ♪ jagger: little richard was the first thing i remember, as far as rock 'n' roll was concerned. ♪ ♪ winslow: one time, elvis came backstage, and elvis said "little richard, don't you ever worry about anything." ♪ baby, baby, please don't leave it alone, yeah ♪ winslow: "you will always be the true king of rock 'n' roll." 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[ cheers and applause ] one day, i was getting ready to go on the stage, and i was so tired. and a friend of mine introduced me to cocaine. blackwell: '73 and '74, they were coming to my room asking for money that i couldn't account for. and i knew where it was going. i didn't stick around much after that. little richard: i was just doing everything -- pcp, cocaine, heroin. angel: he just wasn't the person i knew anymore. little richard: one night, i was appearing at magic mountains, and a friend of mine called to come to see me. he was 21 years old. he never did arrive. he had gotten shot. later on that night, he died. i had another friend of mine that i went to his house to get some cocaine. he fell dead. another friend of mine, some fellas put in a trunk and cut him up with a butcher knife. my brother tony said, "richard, i want to borrow some money." i had an engagement in miami, florida. i said, "tony, when i get back, i'll let you have it." when i got back, instead of going with tony, i met a man. we went to a hotel to have a party. the next morning, somebody pushed a note up under my door saying, "your brother's dead." ♪ i tell you, you talk about rock bottom, i've been below the rocks where it was no bottom. god is talking to me through my brother's death and all of my friends that died right in a row. oh, god. lord, please help me. please save me. ♪ uh-huh, it's me ♪ ♪ ♪ it's me, oh, lord ♪ ♪ i am standing... ♪ little richard: it started me to thinking more seriously about my life than i've ever thought. ♪ oh, i'm standing in the need of prayer ♪ ♪ not my mother... ♪ little richard: i opened my bible to mark 8:36-37, "therefore what shall it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" ♪ but it's me ♪ ♪ oh, oh, lord, yeah ♪ ♪ i am standing in the need of prayer ♪ little richard: and the only rock i've got now is the rock, christ jesus. i just let it all go. [ applause ] ♪ oh, that beautiful city ♪ ♪ where jesus is waiting ♪ i said, "well, lord, can i sing rock 'n' roll and do both of them?" god says, "you've got to be all for me, or let me go." when tony died, it really affected richard. he didn't want to be one of those who would die and burn in hell. that's the way we were taught. little richard: i'm just so glad that god was able to clean me up and wash me up. and thank you, lord. i'm not gay now, but, you know, i was gay all my life. i believe i was one of the first gay people to come out. but god let me know that he made adam to be with eve, not steve. ♪ oh, god, how can you save me? i'm homosexual. oh, god. i'm not just a dope addict. i'm unnatural. i like men. not only did he take me from dope... king: richard continued his tour, and he's renouncing his queerness even more fervently than before. little richard: he changed me from homosexuality. there's harm to communities to have somebody speaking on a public stage in that way. i feel he betrayed gay people by saying he's not. but i do understand. you're not strong enough to take it. i understand that. especially a person like little richard, who had so much to hold. ♪ as i look around ♪ ♪ i can see ♪ ♪ so many people ♪ nyong'o: when i hear his passionate singing at this time, especially at the mda telethon, it's hard to tell how much is running towards god versus running away from himself. ♪ but i realize ♪ ♪ that i ♪ ♪ should be grateful ♪ ♪ oh, so grateful ♪ man: i think of how little richard fared as a young person. as a kid who came from a church family who was black and queer and femme and disabled, who'd been bullied by not only other kids, but also his father. there's a lot of violence that attends trying to live a queer life. here's the one and only little richard. 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"the life and times of little richard." "the quasar of rock." man: what does that mean? the brightest star in the universe. i don't think it was richard's idea to do the book. i think he was approached to do the book. $1,000 a day on coke. my nose is big enough to park diesel trucks. ...diesel trucks. ...diesel trucks in. and god got me off of it. and he healed my body. and now i am a man of god with a new book called "the life and times of little richard." [ laughter ] he didn't exactly tell the truth all the time. he states that i did things that i didn't know i did until i read that book. oh. a close-up, close-up. once he started to feel a buzz, it all came back. when i first wrote "tutti frutti," it was "tutti frutti, good booty." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] people want it to be a thing, you know? i mean, this night, "oh, he's got a thing. but wait a minute. this night, he's got another thing." "if it don't fit. don't force it." did you understand that one? yeah. that's carpentry. [ laughter ] no! richard really didn't have a thing. richard was who he wanted to be, when he wanted to be, how he wanted to be, on what day he wanted to be it. well, i haven't been involved in sex in 14 years. it's been 14 years now. that's not my main thing in life, period, anymore. my main thing in life now is to be a messenger. whether you're homosexual or whatever walk of life a person may be, god loves them. he existed in contradiction. he could be openly gay in some ways, probably to his circles. this happened for decades. nyong'o: as a queer person myself, i think that queerness is often misunderstood as an individual identity, right? the truth of one person, right? as if we have a single truth that we can never change. he was flamboyant at all times. but it was all in jesus' name. everything was in jesus' name. everything. ♪ great god almighty, been a long time coming ♪ glenn: he's very, very generous. really close to all of us in the band. he would say to the crowd, "i'd like y'all to meet my son." and that's what i would always call him, my second dad. he'd break me off $100, break keith off $100, just give everybody $100 or something, you know? just glad to see us. he'd send people to school and college and stuff. angel: and he paid rent, including mine. never bragged about it. richard was the love of my life, and i believe i was the love of his. he calls us. he calls our moms. i've never met someone that was so real. nyong'o: queer communities know this well, this idea of creating your own family. we all really loved him and cared about him being great. man: 10 performers who helped give birth to rock 'n' roll now have a permanent home. woman: it is the newly formed rock 'n' roll hall of fame. jerry lee lewis, chuck berry, the everly brothers, ray charles, little richard, james brown, fats domino. nyong'o: there was a ceremony, but richard wasn't there. [ siren wailing ] hervey: he had gotten in a car accident in hollywood. little richard: i was in my sports car. i was real tired. and i just blacked out. oh, oh! oh, my god. man: it's believed that he fell asleep at the wheel. hervey: they found a bag with about $30,000 in it. he had flown to london and gotten a record offer. [ siren wailing ] he didn't have a lawyer. he did all this on his own. ♪ man: he is very lucky to have survived. nyong'o: i mean, for richard to have missed the hall of fame ceremony -- it's the first and only time he's been widely recognized -- that must have been heartbreaking. woman: what's the most important thing in your life today? love. that's what i want so much to have. i don't have it exactly -- exactly the way that i want to. i don't have nobody but me and the great god of abraham, isaac, and jacob. 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[ laughter ] me. [ laughter ] i have never received nothing. y'all ain't never gave me no grammy. king: it's endearing. it's funny. but as a black man watching that, i heard seething anger that underwrites what he's saying. shut up. "you have never given me what is due to me. and since you don't know, i'm gonna tell you." ♪ i can't turn you loose ♪ ♪ if i do, i'm gonna lose my mind ♪ ♪ i can't ever turn you loose ♪ ♪ if i do, i'm gonna lose my mind ♪ king: he was just going to do the induction speech for otis redding, who's passed away, but he comes onstage, and they're playing, "i can't turn you loose" by otis. ♪ i'm gonna give you everything you want ♪ king: and he wants you to know that he knows that he's the root of all of this and nobody else can sing this song like he can. ♪ everybody got to know, yeah ♪ ♪ whoo, ooh, ow, ow, ow, ow! ♪ thank you. [ cheers and applause ] oh, my god. see, you all should record me. i don't know why you're not. i'm still here, and i look decent. [ laughter ] whoo-whee. shut up. make my picture. [ laughter ] oh, i feel so real. [ clears throat ] i feel so unnecessary. [ laughs ] on one hand, they might be laughing at him. and i'll tell you, when i first heard otis sing "lucille," i thought it was me. [ laughter ] king: they also might be laughing because they're uncomfortable. he's speaking truth to power. and he is basically telling them what nobody really wants to say but everyone should say. what would it do to the american mythology of rock music to say that its pioneers were black, queer people? one of the greatest singers ever lived, one of the greatest composers ever lived. that's including me and everybody else, jimi hendrix and all of them that's been with me, james brown, the beatles, and mick jagger. he don't ever mention it, but he was with me, too. you're waiting for your turn, you know? you're waiting for, "what's he gonna say about me?" mick, you remember that. he's here. he know. he was sleeping on the floor. they didn't have no bed for him. i know he can't forget. that carpet's hard, wasn't it, mick? [ laughs ] jagger: everyone was beholden to him for influencing them to start playing rock 'n' roll. whoo-whoo! audience: whoo! whoo-whoo! audience: whoo-whoo! ♪ send me some lovin' ♪ ♪ ♪ send it, i pray ♪ hadley: by the '80s and into the '90s, everything that little richard had put in motion was now just the oxygen of american popular music. ♪ when you're so far away ♪ hadley: when i started checking out in college bands like... ♪ should i stay or should i go now? ♪ hadley: ...living colour, bad brains, fishbone, i heard, like, rock 'n' roll is black. that sounded heretical to me, which is terrible. was just blown away by how much i hadn't been told about the truth of rock 'n' roll. ♪ pretend you are here ♪ robinson: we're using the wrong word when we talk about "appropriation." think about it as obliteration. when you take and then erase, you remove that entity's capacity to be attached to this thing that they created, to make money from this thing that they created. ♪ don't you know, baby, i need you so much ♪ the infrastructure of the culture does that. it still does it today. robinson: little richard cannot be erased and has a loud mouth and has a fire. so if you try to take his shit [laughs] right, he is going to battle you, not just from a, "this is my song" sort of way, but, "this is my sound, my rhythm, my being." ♪ i waited on you, yeah ♪ ♪ hey ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ("un monde pliable" by jeongpill song) ♪ ( ♪ ♪ ) (camera shutters) ( ♪ ♪ ) (camera shutters) ( ♪ ♪ ) ( ♪ ♪ ) ( ♪ ♪ ) (psst! psst!) ahhh! with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily gives you long lasting non-drowsy relief. flonase all good. also, try our allergy headache and nighttime pills. (♪♪) (♪♪) the new stuffed quesadillas. only at el pollo loco ♪ the new summer family meal. starting at $24. only at el pollo loco. each year in presenting the prestigious american music award of merit, we tell you about someone who has had an important and ongoing impact on contemporary music. hi, this is keith richards. we were a bar band. and our first tour, i probably learned more in that six weeks than i ever had before or since. congratulations, little richard. give me a call, man. ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the incredible little richard! ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom ♪ ♪ i got a gal named sue ♪ ♪ she knows just what to do ♪ ♪ i got a gal named sue ♪ ♪ she knows just what to do ♪ ♪ she rocks to the east, she rocks to the west ♪ ♪ but she's the gal that i love best ♪ i'm really glad to get this award. it's been a long time coming, and i've been waiting. and i'm just so grateful that dick clark, which is an old friend of mine, he and his wife, have seen fit to make this tribute to me while i'm still alive in this world. and -- and i'm just glad that -- i'm glad that he saw and he wants you to see that i am the originator. i am the emancipator. i am the architect of rock 'n' roll. rhythm and blues had a baby, and somebody named it rock 'n' roll. [ laughs ] yes. oh, there's that night all over again. wow. woman: where did you go? what happened? i remember sitting back in the back watching him get that. and -- and when i saw him start to cry, just like right now, it made me cry. [ crying ] because, you know, he had mentioned on the ride over, you know, how he'd always felt like he didn't get what -- you know, he didn't get what he deserved and how he created all this music. and nobody -- nobody gave him anything for it, you know? and... oh, man. sorry, y'all. i think more of us should declare what we are. especially for people of color, especially for queer people, right, in this culture, don't shrink. in a sort of more religious, conservative religious space, you don't declare who you are. you don't declare what you did. you give the glory to god. and when little richard is talking about being the innovator and when he's talking about being the originator, he's saying, "i am the god of this." and that's one of those spaces where i know that he knows that when he is fully himself, he's closest to god. ♪ good golly, miss molly ♪ ♪ sure like to ball ♪ ♪ oooh, miss molly ♪ ♪ sure like to ball ♪ ♪ when you're rockin' and a-rollin' ♪ ♪ can't hear your mama call ♪ whoo! ♪ clark: the architect of rock 'n' roll, the one, the only little richard. i am the beautiful little richard, and don't you ever forget it. whoo! [ cheers and applause ] you're little richard. whoo-whoo! hey, it's little richard on ice. hi, pee-wee! whoo! jones: any true performer, that thing doesn't ever leave you. and i think he tried to hold onto it as long as he could. rock 'n' roll is not a part of jesus. anything that is not of god is not from god. and his last days were calling everybody he knew and saying, "get right with god, because the end of the world could be any moment, and you need to be ready." man: he was reflecting on his mortality. he was reflecting on, "is there a way that i could live something of a joyful afterlife?" penniman: the last months of his life, it was important for him to tell people that god is love and that he loved all mankind. i don't see the end as the only place where the meaning resides. man: if you could leave just one legacy to the world, would it rather be your music or your preaching and your church work? little richard: i think all that goes together. i don't go to church and sing "long tall sally" or "good golly miss molly." but all of it's music, and i love it. ♪ ♪ he paved the way for everything that followed. ♪ nyong'o: he taught me that you could claim things even when you weren't supposed to. i am the king of rock 'n' roll. ow-ow-ow! my, my, my, my. anthony: little richard gave the world permission to be -- to be who you wanted to be, who you were. ♪ porter: the reason why i'm finally, finally able, as a black queer man, to show up and do anything i want is because of him. ♪ man: it's almost as if everyone is defined by little richard. i don't want anything from them. all i want to do is to spread what they got from me. just carry the good word over the world. that's all. ♪ a wop bop a loo bop a lop bom boom ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ tutti frutti, oh rootie ♪ ♪ a wop bop a loo bop a lop ba boom ♪ does someone who threatened putin■s power ever die unintentionally in russia? i don't think so. he just leaves all this carnage in his wake. do you think he cares about that? no, he doesn't. who is responsible for that image? i take responsibilities for anything that happens in this city. how dependent is the government on elon musk? the answer to your question is we are very, very beholden to elon musk. the source with kaitlan collins. weeknights at nine. ladies, let's go. i'm hungry! ■ ■ i am josé andrés. spain is the land where my passion for cooking began. and now i'm taking my daughters... wow! ummmm! that is pure crunch. take a look at this! ...to taste the food... oh, my god! it■s unbelievable! ...that made me who i am. ■ ■ this is tradition.