Happy birthday Little Richard!

Before & After: Brown Sugar

Before - The Rolling Stones (1971)


After - Little Richard (1971)

Hold on to your wig-hat: Little Richard in Paris, 1966

You  would do yourself well to check out this 1966 live set from Little Richard, recorded in Paris, and brought to us courtesy of the Big O. Listen & download here.

We considered ourselves not fans but connoisseurs. We could sit around and speculate endlessly on the reasons for Elvis’s artistic decline, Little Richard’s intellectual capabilities (he had entered Morehouse College, it said in the liner notes to his second album), Gene Vincent’s amputated leg or Carl Perkins’ speculated insanity…In our hierarchy that made Elvis king, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis princes, and Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and Gene Vincent archdukes. And that was our high school yearbook. - Peter Guralnick, Feel Like Going Home

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A happy 80th birthday to Little Richard!

Little Richard - Scuba Party

Christie's Pop Culture auctions - US & UK

As mentioned last week, Christies will be having another major Pop Culture/Music auction in the UK on July 1. And now preceding that here in NYC, they will have an additional auction of the same sort of stuff on June 23, with viewings June 19-22. The items can be viewed here and an ecatalog of everything can be viewed here. Below are what I found to be some of the more interesting items available.


The Who crew tour bag circa 1970's


The Who 1965


Velvet Underground 1966


Velvet Underground 1966


Television & Blondie UK tour 1977


Sex Pistols official 'zine 1977


Sex Pistols, Manchester UK 1977


Sex Pistols promo poster 1977


Little Richard et al 1957


John Lee Hooker 1975


James Brown 1966


The Jam 1977


The Factory Club repro 2003 (Peter Saville)


The Factory Club 1978/79


The Clash Manchester UK 1977


Can 1971


Buzzcocks 1977 (Linder)


Bo Diddley 1955


Studio 54 opening night invite 1977