Little Richard, King of Rock & Roll

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
“‘Womp-baba-loo-bomp-a-lomp-bam-boom . . .’ said Little Richard, and to a lot of Americans that about said it all,” wrote Robert Duncan once—just nine syllables in a loop-the-loop so ribald and ragged that the MC5 version was smooth as a boy’s choir’s by comparison, and to Duncan [...]