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In their last tour before Freddie Mercury died, Queen included Tutti Frutti in a medley of golden oldies like Hello, Mary Lou (Ricky Nelson) and Elvis's "Baby You're So Square" sort of paying tribute to the guys that came before them.
There are a ton of tributes on Twitter.....I forgot Little Richard appeared on PeeWee's Playhouse!
I wish I knew how to embed some of the other tweets here but I don't think they accept the html coding in posts.
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Man, this is a huge loss. I have heard songs like Good Golly Miss Molly or The Girl Can't Help It countless times, yet they still do it for me. My box set of his Specialty recordings is one of my prized possessions, too.
My mother saw him at one of the earliest Alan Freed shows in the NYC area circa 1956. She recalls him being easily the wildest one of the performers and that he seemed like a space alien compared to the others. To have seem him at the peak of his popularity... yeah, I'm jealous.
Not many left of the founders of rock 'n' roll now...
RIP
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Little Richard has his picture taken with some obscure foursome in Hamburg in 1962:
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Avatar: Here's to the late, great Steve Dillon. Best. Punisher. Artist. EVER!
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Betty Wright, the Miami Queen of Soul, has passed away, only 66 years old.
She started her career as a teenager, and her early hits like Cleanup Woman or Tonight's the Night were later often sampled by hip hop and R&B artists.
She was one of the first artists to start her own independent record label, and the first female artist ever to have a gold record on a self-owned indie label, with Mother Wit in 1988.
In recent years, she worked as a vocal coach for the likes of Joss Stone and had a comeback album with The Roots as backing band.
She was 17 when she wrote and recorded this.
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"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
Jerry Stiller passed away at 92.
I got exposed to Rabies and had to go to the ER 4 times in the middle of this Plague. It was like going into the belly of the beast. I hope I didn't catch Covid, time will tell, it's just that Rabies is 100% lethal unless you get immediate treatment and Covid is like 5% or 1% lethal depending on what day of the week it is. Anyhow the nurse was trying to figure out if I had Covid before letting me into the ER. She went through a litany of the symptoms but said one I had not heard of. Falling down. Apparently some people fall down with Covid.
I sure hope the scientists finally get this puzzle of the Coronavirus solved. You hear all kinds of rumors, like their was some testing being done to figure out a cure in a lab in China and some of the workers got contaminated, etc. Or it mutated in the lab, etc. All sorts of wild theories out there.