“In a quietly hysterical era as defined by fear as the one we’re living in today, it took an unrepentantly effeminate Macon, Georgia man known as "Little Richard" to slap some sense into a McCarthy-hounded, Cold War-traumatized 1950s America. Barely controlled cacophonies of shrieking, pounding, slamming, and honking, Penniman’s piano-driven hits like "Long Tall Sally" […]”
