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Little Richard: AWOP-BOP-ALOO-MOP-ALOP-BAM-BOOM!

Wayne Robins, Newsday, 18 June 1992

THERE'S NO QUESTION that some rock icons learned how to do what they do by watching and hearing Little Richard, from the cascading "whooo's!" on the Beatles' early records to the androgynous abandon of Prince in concert. But let us consider for a moment what music was like before Little Richard.

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