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Little Richard: "I Am The Rill Thang!"

Charles Shaar Murray, Q, December 1986

GOOD GOSH A-MIGHTY...it's Little Richard. A little fuller in the face, a little thicker in the waist, but there he is in a Mayfair Hotel suite complete with Yamaha baby grand piano, cavorting for the camera and pounding out a random assortment of his hits for a mesmerised audience of five.

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