Sam Cooke's Little Richard

Little Richard was going to show everyone what star power really was. He spent a whole minute in pitch darkness with the band vamping, before the spotlight suddenly picked him out in an all-white suit and he launched into long-toll sally. The British tour was a massive success, and Richard kept becoming wilder and more frantic on stage as five years of pent up rock and roll burst out of him. Many shows he'd pull off most of his clothes and throw them into the audience, ending up dressed in just a bathrobe on his knees. And one night he even faked his own death, collapsing off the piano and lying still on the stage in the middle of a song