A History of Richard's Gospel Singing

After the lawsuits over him quitting specialty records were finally settled, he started recording again, but only gospel songs. Richard went out on the road as an evangelist, but also went to study to become a priest. The tension between Richard's sexuality and his religion continued to torment him. He dropped out of the seminary after propositioning another male student in a public toilet. But he continued his evangelism in gospel singing until October 1962, when he went on tour in the UK. Don Arden was apopleptic. If Richard didn't start performing rock and roll song soon, he would have to cancel the whole tour. An audience that wanted rip it up and long-tall Sally and