Little Richard @ The St. Augustine Amphitheatre

Little Richard is Coming to St. Augustine!
with special guests Falling Bones
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Tickets: $15, $25, $35
Doors: 6pm, Show 8pm

Tickets to Little Richard will go on sale on Saturday, September 22. They can be purchased at the St. Augustine Beach Pier (cash or check only) or on www.ticketmaster.com

There could not have been a Michael Jackson if there had not been a Little Richard.” PEOPLE Magazine

“…a contemporary pop rebel like Prince seems like small potatoes compared with Little Richard, the original wild man of rock n’ roll.” NEW YORK TIMES

LITTLE RICHARD — the originator, the emancipator, the architect of rock and roll is performing live at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre with his orchestra October 20th! Exploding into the American consciousness in the mid-50’s …”awop-bop-a-loo-mop-alop-bam-boom” … he single-handedly laid the foundation and established the rules for a new musical form: rock and roll.

The song, “Tutti Frutti,” was his catalyst for success and led to an uninterrupted run of smash hits— “Tutti Frutti,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Rip It Up,” “Lucille,” “Jenny, Jenny,” “Keep A Knockin’,” “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” “Oohl My Soul. By 1968, Little Richard had sold over 32 Million records internationally. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and launched into a pattern of work which has been virtually non-stop, encompassing not only recording, but television, films, soundtracks and commercials.

Little Richard is known only as a legend. James Brown called Little Richard his idol and credited him with “first putting the funk in the rock and roll beat.” Ray Charles referred to Little Richard as “the man that started a kind of music that set the pace for a lot of what’s happening today.” In 1969, Elvis Presley told Little Richard, “Your music has inspired me - you are the greatest.” Otis Redding, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, David Bowie, and numerous other rock n roll icons have also cited Little Richard as being their first major influence.