Chords for Little Richard On Meeting With The Beatles

_ _ _ It's a wonderful book, Little Richard.
You know, a lot of the great superstars of music _ still credit you.
Yes.
With the beginning the whole thing, whether you're happy about it now or you're not.
I'm glad about it.
Yeah?
I'm glad about it.
What are your first memories of the Beatles?
They were great fans of yours.
Well, when Brian Epstein brought me to Liverpool, his dad had some record stores,
and so they brought me there to do an engagement at the ballroom there,
and he had these four little boys looking very strange to me, and he said,
he said, they just love you.
I said to myself, I was saying, I hope they don't, you know?
_ _ _ He says, they just crazy, and Paul just took my hand, and he just pulled my fingers,
_ and John wasn't pulling as much as Paul.
Yeah, yeah.
Paul really pulled.
Yeah.
And George was pulling, Ringo was pulling, and they had just got rid of this guy, Best,
from them at the time, and they was asking me how did it look in America,
and they were singing all of my songs, and Paul used to like when I said,
woo, he loved that.
You can still do that.
Oh, yes.
I haven't lost anything.
Oh, that's good.
Just add on to it.
Just add on to it. _ _
_ _ _ _ Woo! _ _
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And they just loved me, and you know, so I went to Hamburg, Germany with them,
and they was making $50 per person, and it was me, the swinging blue jeans,
Casilla Black, the Rolling Stones, _ they didn't have nowhere to stay,
and they was staying, sleeping on the floor, _ you know, at the time,
and you know, Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player.
He was 18 years old.
Billy Preston was my organist.
Oh!
[Gb] And he was 14.
_ James Brown was our vocalist.
_ And so, you see, he and I was raised together.
He used to like to beat me, because I looked better than he did,
_ _ [B] _
and everybody was talking about how beautiful I was,
and he wanted to beat me to mess it up.
_ _ _ So, _ _ the Beatles were around a lot at that time.
A lot, yes, and I had to pay for their food, you know.
If you all are listening, send my money back, please.
Yeah. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Paul's got _ plenty of money.
He has enough to send.
Paul, lender, hi, dog.
_ _ _ But what happened was, Paul was so nice, you know.
John used to like to mess with me in my dressing room, you know, quite a bit.
I can't say on television what he did, you know. _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ He was something else.
In fact, I never met nobody like him.
Really?
I don't think nobody met [Bb] nobody like him.
[B] But I mean, I don't mean he was bad.
Now, listen, I'm not saying nothing bad about him, God bless his soul. _
But he was all right, but he would mess with me. _
_ _ _ _ He wouldn't let me out of my dressing room.
Oh!
He wouldn't hold me in my_
Hold the door and I'll be screaming.
My!
_ Loud, loud.
And sometimes I would scream like a white lady.
Woo! _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Db] _ _ Did you ever think that_
And you know, black ladies, woo!
_ _ _ And white [B] ladies, woo!
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ Excuse me for cutting you off.
No, that's all right.
But did you ever think the Beatles would get so big?
No, Brian Epstein offered me a tape to bring back of the Beatles.
They was singing Good Golly Miss Molly and Long Tall Sally.
They was singing Rip It Up and Ready to Teddy.
And you know, I would go over there and they would always call me king.
You know, when I get over there, the Beatles said, you know, you're the king.
_ Mick Jagger, they're saying you're the king.
All everybody_
And they would put their coats down for me to walk on when it'd be raining.
They would take off their coats and said, you can't get_
We can't afford for you to get wet.
Said that, _ you're history.
You're really, you're the creator.
_ And I didn't feel that way, you know.
Although I knew that what they were saying was the truth. _ _ _ _
And so it just really shook my mind, you know.
And all these years and then I look back and see David Bowie, [N] you know,
who admits that he took God in style.
Now I was his inspiration, boy, George.
Michael Jackson says I'm his idol.
A prince.
And I'm, you know, I'm just, I thank God that I'm a living legend and not a dead one.
A dead one, yeah.
You know, most of them are gone.
I know, I know.
And you're still here.
Looking good.
I know. _
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_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ Well, there he was and here he is.
[Gm] At home.
Get up and applaud Mr.
Little Richard.
Let me tell you about Elvis Presley called him the greatest.
Smokey Robinson said he was the beginning of rock and roll.
Mick Jagger admitted half of what I know I learned from watching his stage act.
John Lennon says he was better than Elvis.
Paul McCartney said he was my idol.
Keith Richards acknowledged that he was the most, the most exciting moment of my life was
appearing on stage with Little Richard.
Dick Clark simply called him the greatest rock and roll legend of our time.
Here he sits.
Thank you.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you.
_ Let's move on from, we're talking about the foundation to the many people you've influenced.
Can you recall some of your early meetings with [F] the Beatles?
Oh, yeah.
And what they said to you, what you said to them, where you were and what was like making
early music with the Beatles?
I can see it right now, almost like a vision. _
When I first went to Liverpool, Brian Epstein's daddy owned a _ _ lot of record stores and he
brought me to the ballroom there.
And when I walked in, he said, Richard, I got four guys.
Would you mind taking a picture with my group?
He said, one day I hope they record and they become famous.
He said, I'll give you a percentage to take this [G] tape back to the States, which I didn't
even take it.
I didn't believe they was going to make it.
I must tell you the truth. Okay.
So you sat in the club and you saw their set.
Did you see the set?
No, I heard it from, I was behind stage.
I was in a dress.
What we, now they're talking about that may even been before Ringo was part of the group.
No, Ringo had just came with them.
With the group.
Okay.
What do you remember thinking about what they were doing there?
Well, they were singing, love, love me do.
You know, I love you.
So please, please, please let me do.
They would have sung Good God and Miss Marla, but I was on the show.
They couldn't sing it.
_ _ They sound good.
Paul was [F] unbelievable.
To me, I felt that he can make it.
Himself.
I felt that the Rolling Stones can make it all the way because they were so rocker.
Yeah.
Really rockers type group. _
_ But after I went on the stage and they were so excited, they just wanted to touch me.
I took them with me to Hamburg, Germany to the Star Club.
Well, they went on right before me.
They had my name out in the streets and the Beatles had a little name in Hamburg where
they had been going out working in the Star Club.
But it was bringing all the groups out of England there, you know, to perform.
And so _ we went there and we would sit in the dressing room between shows, me and Paul,
_ John, and they would listen to me and they liked it that way.
_ _ They wanted that so bad, you know, and Paul could do it, you know, and he would just get,
you know, _ he couldn't do it as good.
He could do it, but not the way he wanted to be.
What what did they then do from that point in your view as a musician that in addition
to the shrewd management that helped launch them, how did how did they grow musically?
I think that they grew very rapidly because what they did was, I think the Beatles themselves
were surprised with the phenomenal success that happened to them.
I'm sure they were shocked because what they went back and got the old music.
They went back and got me, Chuck Berry, _ _ _ _ Bo Diddley.
They went back and picked us up, you know, and Mick Jagger went back and got the _ Muddy
Waters and Elmo James and Howlin' Wolf.
And they just what they did, they brought it back to the public.
Instead of coming out of America, they brought it from Europe and threw it back across the water.
So now here it is.
It's good.
And then they had the ability to write good stuff themselves.
Oh, fantastic.
Some of the greatest, greatest writers.
Unbelievable.
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