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HankMWop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!!!
Happy Birthday Little Richard!!!
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HankMWop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!!!
Happy Birthday Little Richard!!!
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24FPS
Worked with him on a Christmas TV special for FOX in 1988. Backstage he was quiet and humble. Loved standing by his piano while he played Christmas songs.
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Wry Cooter
Shut up!
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"I feel Bob Dylan is my blood brother. I believe if I didn't have a place to stay, Bob Dylan would buy me a house. He sat by my bed; he didn't move for hours. I was in pain that medicine couldn't stop. My tongue was cut out, leg all tore up, bladder punctured. I was supposed to be dead..." Little Richard
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"I feel Bob Dylan is my blood brother. I believe if I didn't have a place to stay, Bob Dylan would buy me a house. He sat by my bed; he didn't move for hours. I was in pain that medicine couldn't stop. My tongue was cut out, leg all tore up, bladder punctured. I was supposed to be dead..." Little Richard
Hm... When did this happen? I have never heard about this. Did Bob really vistit Richard?
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"I feel Bob Dylan is my blood brother. I believe if I didn't have a place to stay, Bob Dylan would buy me a house. He sat by my bed; he didn't move for hours. I was in pain that medicine couldn't stop. My tongue was cut out, leg all tore up, bladder punctured. I was supposed to be dead..." Little Richard
Hm... When did this happen? I have never heard about this. Did Bob really vistit Richard?
well i wasn't there, wish I had tried, he was at the go-to 'local' hospital for much of the entertainment industry on the Westside. Bob knows the town pretty well, he's got local blood on the tracks all over the Westside, including his home up in Malibu land a long history of personal and musical adventures...i mean it would have been easy for him to drive himself over there if he wasn't working out of town...and Dylan's not the kind to blab about such things... he clearly loves the guy in any case...
bob had just done Infidels after the 'Christian' LP trilogy of releases....
...Richard had quit secular music the year after he scored all those hits in '56, conflicted about wanting to have pure intentions with his life...i think Dylan would have understood that...Richard was performing in his natural afro without makeup and singing gospel music in suits (and ripping it up) for a time before re-intering the pop music world...Richard was a good run of sucessful work at the time. It would be almost be a little weird for his closest admirers, who really understood his impact viscerally, to NOT visit. Dylan was at Woody's bedside as well....
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"The first entry was about rock legend Little Richard, who nearly died in a West Hollywood car crash in 1985.
Little Richard lived in Room 319 in the Continental Hyatt Hotel — now the Andaz — in the 1980s and ’90s.
He was working on a biography and appeared in the movie “Down and Out in Beverly Hills.”
He scored a hit single, “Great Gosh a Mighty,” and finished a well-received album.
He’d just finished playing the part of a preacher in the television drama “Miami Vice” when the near-tragedy occurred on Route 66:
After filming concluded near midnight at a Hollywood studio, he was driving home on Santa Monica Boulevard when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his Nissan 300ZX. Witnesses claimed the car was traveling at least 60 miles per hour when it slammed into a telephone pole at Curson Avenue, nearly killing him. Firefighters needed a full hour to cut him from the wreckage while he was pinned between the steering wheel and front seat.
Penniman, 52 years old at the time, was so seriously injured he believed he should have died given the severity of the wreck. His right leg had to be reconstructed – it was fractured in more than eight places, doctors said, requiring 35 pins. The singer also suffered a punctured bladder and broken ribs along with head and facial injuries.
“I was supposed to be dead. Six feet under,” he said in numerous media interviews afterwards. “Everyone who saw the (smashed up) car or pictures of it on television wonders how I could still be alive.” Lying in bed in a private room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, he observed, “It tells me that God worked a miracle.”
His recovery prevented him from attending the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an inductee."
[www.route66news.com]
[articles.latimes.com]
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So... Thanks again for the amazing details. And here comes another question. When was Woody THAT sick? And how do you know about these things? Just curious...