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LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING

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9/10

“THE first song that you love and your parents hate is the beginning of the soundtrack to your life – and in my case it was most definitely ‘Lucille’,” says film director John Waters. His testimony is featured in Lisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything, a full-length biographical documentary on the life of the man who unblushingly described himself as “the originator, the emancipator, the architect of rock’n’roll”.

Waters’ testimony is the sort of thing that traditionally forms the foundation of a rock doc: a claim

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