Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Today we are going to pay tribute to Little Richard, one of the most important people in the history of Rock and Roll.

He called himself the architect of Rock and Roll, and I don't think he was wrong at all.

And we have with us Patrick Doyle and David Brown.

And we're going to try to put Richard's legacy in some perspective.

If you can put something like that in any perspective,

and then later I'm going to play an interview

I did with Steve Van Zant of the East Street Bandan solo artist

talking in depth about Little Richard,

who, in addition to giving him his name essentially also conducted his wedding.

So we have that to look forward to.

You've all written interesting stuff about Little Richard.

Rob you wrote that Little Richard invented the idea of the

rock star which is an idea I deeply agree with it. I think he invented a lot of the

stances and spiritual attitude of rock and roll, but maybe you could elaborate on that a bit.

Well, he represented excess and outrage and everything was all about excitement.

It's funny to compare the aggressive explosive sound of

something like 2D fruity where he's leading the percussion on the piano and

how it just doesn't sound like anything even coming out of New Orleans at the time.

He was just straight ahead, forward momentum, all up, flashing noise and it was just a beautiful thing.

Listening to his debut album, Here's Little Richard.

There's moments in the past few days when I was like,

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