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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning, Sam veil.

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Speaker 2: Little Richard eighty seven years old. He died on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Every musician you can imagine said that they have been

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Speaker 2: inspired by Little Richard.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at people like Prince and Rick James,

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Speaker 1: so he begat Rick James, who in turn begat Prince.

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Speaker 2: But Mick Jagger said he used to watch him and

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Speaker 2: watch his moves, and he's copied his moves and his

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Speaker 2: interaction with an audience, and he inspired him. Every you know,

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Speaker 2: the Rolling Stones said that the Beatles have said it

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Speaker 2: he was their inspiration. Yeah. To tell you how I

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Speaker 2: met him, Yeah, well I can't on the edge of

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Speaker 2: my chair. I met him on the phone. But having

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Speaker 2: but still I'll tell you. Well, still, when I was

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Speaker 2: a new research a segment producer on the midday show

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Speaker 2: with Ray Martin, week after week we get Little Richard

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Speaker 2: on and I was I was the producer in my

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Speaker 2: and I'd phone him up. I had his home phone

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Speaker 2: number and I phoned him up and we'd arrange for

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Speaker 2: him to come on the.

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Speaker 3: Show, just chat to him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was so brilliant and he was outrageous.

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Speaker 2: He'd go into the studio in the States, and he'd

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Speaker 2: say to the audience, I want to hear you go whoa.

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Speaker 2: And so these late old ladies and said, I can't

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Speaker 2: hear you louder whoa.

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Speaker 3: I turn it down too.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: But extraordinary stories about him that the reason he wore

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Speaker 2: all that outrageous makeup was because he was really the

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Speaker 2: first performer who performed in clubs where white people went,

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Speaker 2: and he was not allowed to look sexually attractive to

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Speaker 2: white women. That's why the only way he could do

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Speaker 2: it was by looking ludicrous, the big crazy eyeliner and

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Speaker 2: the crazy hair, and so he looked like a gargoyle

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Speaker 2: or a character rather than a man.

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Speaker 3: Woweah, why isn't it that's extraordinary. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And in his later years, well this was interesting. In

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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty seven, he was on tour in Australia. He

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Speaker 2: saw a fireball in the sky. He took it as

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Speaker 2: a sign from God. He abandoned the tour, quit rock

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Speaker 2: and roll, and he enrolled in Divinity School. They found

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Speaker 2: out that the fireball was Sputnik, which was launched that night.

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Speaker 2: So it says he ditched the tour, apparently leaving half

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Speaker 2: a million dollars worth of canceled bookings, lots of lawsuits.

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Speaker 2: The change in plans kept him off a scheduled flight

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Speaker 2: that crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And then in his last years of life he very religious,

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Speaker 2: became a wedding celebrant for people like Demi Moore and

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Speaker 2: when she married Bruce Willis. He married Cindi Lauper and

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Speaker 2: her husband so extraordinary. Stephen van Zandt when he married

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Speaker 2: his wife was the little Richard conducted that? And there's

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Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen as best man.

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Speaker 3: What about that?

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Speaker 2: So what a cavalcade of song, cavalcade of fabulous hits like.

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Speaker 3: Great songs live and you like Lucia love her song?

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Speaker 3: Bes did this. It's the very building blocks of rock

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Speaker 3: music as we know it. And he's probably most famous

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Speaker 3: one that every.

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Speaker 2: About to Fruity.

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Speaker 3: Is this about Artie Fardi going to a party.

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Speaker 2: How does that go? Artie Fardy had a party, All

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Speaker 2: the farts were.

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Speaker 3: There, Toty Fruity did a beauty.

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Speaker 2: They all ran out for air. No, it's not about that.

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Speaker 3: That story, Pony, It was that story Tony Fruity.

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Speaker 1: I remember my dad, he was a big little Richard

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Speaker 1: fan saying that Toty Fruity got him in trouble when

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Speaker 1: he was of my.

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Speaker 3: Late Nana because of the lyrics of the song. It

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Speaker 3: was it was kind of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about I can't say it on the radio.

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Speaker 3: What's it about it? It's sex is about but not normal,

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Speaker 3: not normal sex, well.

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Speaker 2: For some people normal, it's not your every day So

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Speaker 2: what is it? Is it?

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Speaker 3: There?

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Speaker 1: One?

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Speaker 2: I'll read you the lyrics. This is his breakthrough single.

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Speaker 2: Excuse the expression if it don't fit, don't force it.

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Speaker 2: You can grease it and make it easy. They were

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Speaker 2: the lyrics for the lyrics, but the producer suggested it

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Speaker 2: be cleaned up, so they kind of cleaned it up

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Speaker 2: a little bit.

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Speaker 3: You have to yeah, so like he was little Richer

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Speaker 3: rest in peace.

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Speaker 2: I've just also had a flashback that when I arranged

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Speaker 2: all the stories for him on the midday show, we

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Speaker 2: had all his footage of him performing and all the

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Speaker 2: things through the years. I got a call from sixty

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Speaker 2: minutes he said, Wow, he's so entertaining, we want to

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Speaker 2: do a story with him. Where'd you get all the footage?

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Speaker 2: And I said, well, I just went through the archives

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Speaker 2: and all the foes said, how did you get all

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Speaker 2: the permissions and pay all the permits and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 3: Wow you just got to look over there's increasing up

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Speaker 3: a bit. Oops.

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Speaker 2: Join the and Amanda in the Morning one at one

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Speaker 2: point seven.

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Speaker 3: Tell you

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Speaker 2: I