I don't know who Little Richard is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I won't say there's a good Richard and a bad Richard, but I've got a switch, and when it clicks on, I'm somebody else.
Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'
I'm a minnow compared to Caring with all his restaurants and clubs, and good luck to him. I've met him a couple of times. I've got no personal rancour against Richard Caring at all.
I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.
I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.
The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.