1956
RIP IT UP * LITTLE RICHARD * LONDON 8336 * UK
Saturday night and I just got paid
I'm a fool about my money, don't try to save.
My heart says "go go, have a time"
These words were the gospel for many a working class hedonist in the nineteen
fifties and sixties, although they had never herd anybody advocate it in the
same irreverent and anarchistic way. We can only image what these sentiments and
the music accompanying them must have sounded like to British ears at the time.
Back then folk got their earnings in cash they didn't have mortgages, bank
accounts or credit card debts, although they might have had a bit of hire
purchase (the never-never). Little Richard's first release in Great Britain and
with it he captured the post war feeling of many nations in the West with his
slice of happy-go-lucky, high-living, intemperate, self-indulgent, pleasure
seeking, wild and riotous singing.
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