Remembering rock ‘n’ roll forefather Little Richard

nypost.com:

Little Richard, one of the founding fathers of rock ‘n’ roll and whose flamboyance and fire were just as much his calling cards as his pompadour, eyeliner and piano pounding, died Saturday at his brother’s home in Nashville.

He was 87. The cause of death was bone cancer. Richard, whose machine gun delivery, “Wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom” from the classic “Tutti Frutti” is arguably the greatest opening line to a rock song, influenced everyone from The Beatles to David Bowie to The Rolling Stones to Elton John to Prince.

Richard’s agent, Dick Alen, told People Little Richard was battling cancer “for a good while, many years. I last spoke to him about two or three weeks ago.