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Established 1961 29 Lifestyle Music Sunday, November 19, 2017 60 years on, hearing anew explosive Little Richard he world had never heard anything quite like it. of naughtiness, even if Bumps Blackwell, the producer With his ferocious howl and lightning-quick for Specialty Records, had the raunchy original lyrics Tpiano, Little Richard fired an opening salvo of rewritten. what would be called rock ‘n’ roll. Sixty years after his Richard became one of the first entertainers to reach seminal album “Here’s Little Richard,” a newly reissued mass black and white audiences together and triggered edition offers a closer look at Richard the musician and a craze that stunned 1950s sensibilities, with women how he honed a style that influenced so much that was and several fans at a concert in Baltimore prevented to come. In an age of singles, the original 12-inch LP in from jumping off the balcony in euphoria. The Beatles, 1957 collected the early hits of rock’s original wild man who would soon cause similar scenes, considered — “Long Tall Sally,” “Rip It Up” and, most famously, Richard a mentor and played as his opening act in “Tutti Frutti.” England. David Bowie, fascinated by Richard’s other- The reissue features a worldly persona, said crisp, remastered sound Richard inspired him to that brings out Richard’s learn saxophone and take vocal power and a sec- One of rock’s up music. ond CD of demos and outtakes, showing flashiest, most ‘Attacking the piano’ Richard in firm control In the mid-1950s, with only occasional conflicted there were few like revisions during record- Richard. Chuck Berry ing. “People say Little personas was charting a parallel Richard is a wild man. path to rock ‘n’ roll on his But he was very profes- guitar, while Elvis Presley sional in the studio and and Jerry Lee Lewis, two This file photo taken on July 2, 2011 shows Little Richard performing during the annual they nailed these songs white artists heavily PBS “A Capitol Fourth” concert at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. — AFP together pretty quickly,” influenced by Richard, said Chris Morris, a music scholar who helped oversee were just starting out. The star who sounded most like the 60th anniversary edition for Craft Recordings. Richard was Fats Domino, the joyful boogie-woogie leg- of R&B who was that extroverted or loud or wild,” he of born-again conversions, Richard has apparently The reissue includes a more subdued take on “Baby,” end who died last month at age 89. But the self-effacing said. Richard, who turns 85 in December, was not entered a fresh deeply religious phase. He newly recorded while Richard was still in his native Macon, pianist was far different than Richard. involved in the reissue and has made few public appear- renounced his past homosexuality — a concept of Georgia. But “Tutti Frutti,” came together in the studio “Fats was this very charming, avuncular guy — a big ances in recent years. choice in orientation that is anathema to the modern gay in just 15 minutes. With the nonsensical but somehow fat guy who played this rolling New Orleans piano,” But Richard, at once one of rock’s flashiest and most rights movement and mainstream psychologists. Asked instantly understood opening line — “Awop bop a loo Morris said. “Richard arrives and he’s attacking the conflicted personas, suddenly gave a lengthy interview how he would redo his life, Richard — still sprightly and mop / Alop bam boom” — “Tutti Frutti” summed up the piano; he’s banging on it. He’s not crooning; he’s scream- last month to a Christian television station in southern sporting sequined sneakers — said he would be a spirit of rock ‘n’ roll with its infectious rhythms and whiff ing. There had never really been a figure who came out Illinois. Once famous for his hotel orgies before a series preacher. — AFP Garth Brooks on new anthology and lip syncing at CMAs Coldplay tops $500 million arth Brooks says he’s happy to share the first of five antholo- on third richest tour ever gies he created with his fans while he’s still alive and kicking. G“Every artist seems to wait ‘till they’re dead, and I just don’t oldplay generated more than The rockers led by Chris Martin, know how you enjoy that. Or everybody is so old that nobody can $500 million on the rockers’ just who broke through in the early 2000s remember the stories, it just gets kind of all muddied up,” he said in an completed global tour, the with a mixture of dark ballads and interview this week. “So just to be able to do this while you’re up and C band’s promoters said Thursday, mak- rock anthems in the fashion of U2, running really was cool.” ing it the third highest-grossing in his- earlier hinted that “A Head Full of The 55-year-old singer released “Garth Brooks: The Anthology tory. The English band played the 114th Dreams” would be their last full- Part 1 The First Five Years” on Tuesday. It includes a book written by and final show of its “A Head Full of length album, although they released Brooks, five albums - including songs never heard before - and Dreams” tour Wednesday night in a new EP in July. The tour started in behind-the-scenes stories and photos focused on the years 1989- Buenos Aires, completing a haul of March 2016, also in Buenos Aires, and 1993. “This has kind of been the request of the people that allow me to $523 million in ticket sales, Live Nation reached nearly 5.4 million fans, do what I do. And they want to know every nook and cranny of how announced. Only two other acts have according to Live Nation. The band this whole thing all started,” said Brooks, who released his debut in ever amassed more: Irish rockers U2, sold out multiple dates at stadiums in 1989. who grossed $784 million on their London, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago Brooks plans to release the other four anthologies in the next few elaborate, in-the-round “360” tour and New Jersey and set a new atten- years. He said he’s halfway through creating part two. The first one from 2009 to 2011, and The Rolling dance record of 67,451 at Mexico took two years to produce. The multi-platinum singer, who is currently In this Nov 8, 2017 file photo, musician Garth Brooks poses in the press room Stones, who grossed slightly above City’s Foro Sol. Coldplay pushes into on his top-grossing tour, spoke with The Associated Press about the with the award for entertainer of the year at the 51st annual CMA Awards in Coldplay with their “A Bigger Bang” fourth place on the highest-grossing anthology, his decision to lip sync at last week’s Country Music Nashville. — AP shows a decade ago. Coldplay went hi- list Roger Waters, the former Pink Association Awards and more. tech for the tour, with fans given inter- Floyd member whose marathon 2010- AP: What was going through your mind when you looked at the active wristbands that change color to 13 “The Wall Live” tour incorporated first five years of your career? Brooks: It was very sweet. ...Everybody was saying “Hey ringer,” they were calling me ringer ... “You’re a shoo-in” and I was going, the music and eye-popping displays elaborate effects as he pressed an Brooks: To be honest I was scared because I’ve told these stories with lasers and confetti. anti-war theme. —AFP my whole career. Now I was scared that I’d have to go back and find, “(Expletive), we’re not going to take it home this year” because every- “Well maybe that wasn’t exactly how it happened. Maybe we were body thinks (we will). ...We’re still celebrating! stretching the truth a little bit or whatever to make a good story.” And AP: You’ve performed live for years, so why did you decide to lip then what I love is you go back - there it is; there is a first take of sync at the CMAs? “Much Too Young” and that whole thing of you’re looking at all these Brooks: I think I know Tacoma really well, that was five nights (of guys who know what they’re doing and you don’t know what you’re shows there) three days right before (the CMAs), it’s an indoor foot- doing. ball stadium, so you go in there and you’re just fighting your guts out AP: What would the Garth Brooks today tell the 1989 version of to try and reach the person that’s in the very back ... it’s real physical Garth? and real demanding but very rewarding. So I knew they were going to Brooks: What I’ll tell him is, “You’re just so full of (expletive), you’re kick my (expletive) and then I’ve got seven nights in Spokane the day scared to death and you’re running and you’re praying to God that after the CMAs. So the week before Tacoma while we were in each day you don’t kill yourself,” you know. But I think that’s all young Nashville we went in and did a (pre-recorded) track just for the artists. We got a kid named Mitch Rossell with us right now (on tour), CMAs, and then decided we’d do a game-time decision, and when it sweetest kid on the planet, but ..