brian hiatt writes for rolling stone magazine and is an expert on little richard. radio and when they saw him on tv, and i've talked to these people and many of them grow up to be rock stars themselves, it was like seeing a visitor from the future, hearing a visitor from the future, hearing someone from a distant, much cooler planet. he just invented everything and put sexuality and freedom, liberation into three minutes of explosive music. and, as you said, it sounds as fresh now as it did decades ago. and it's kind of extraordinary. and so what you think his legacy will be now? i think his legacy is five decades of rock ‘n‘ roll, in many ways, because it wouldn't have happened without him. it certainly wouldn't have happened in the same way without him. much of what we think of as rock ‘n‘ roll is little richard. in the sense that both the music he wrote — tutti frutti, his first single, he transferred the beat into this straight ahead back beat then dominated rock ‘n‘ roll on a purely musical level. but on a much broader level, on a sort of spiritual level, if y