Description
Lifetime Friend (Turquoise Vinyl) The Architect of Rock And Roll's final album. Includes the original version of "Great Gosh A'Mighty" featured in Down And Out In Beverly Hills. Pressed on opaque turquoise vinyl. Mastered by Grammy®-winning engineer Michael Graves. Lacquers cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl/Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis Packaging contains liner notes from Bill Dahl. After the 1984 release of his autobiography, The Quasar Of Rock And Roll, Little Richard decided to come out of retirement. It had been seven years since his last record, the gospel focused God's Beautiful City, and over a decade from his 1970s return album run on the Reprise label (The Rill Thing, King Of Rock And Roll, and The Second Coming, plus the one that Reprise shelved at the time, Southern Child). or the new album, Richard went overseas to record in London with a powerhouse band including Billy Preston, Muscle Shoals guitarist Travis Wammack, bassist Jesse Boyce, and drummer James Stroud with producer Stuart Colman at the helm. Warner Bros., unleashed Lifetime Friend in 1986. With ten tracks of rock 'n' roll mixed with spiritual lyrics (and even an early rap appearance), the release was another return to form. His third coming, one could say. The album's blistering opener "Great Gosh A'Mighty" (co-written with Billy Preston) would even be recut by Richard for the film Down And Out In Beverly Hills, nearly cracking the Top 40. Two other tracks, "Operator" and "Somebody's Comin'," would make chart appearances in the UK. As Dahl writes in his liners, "Rock 'n' roll never had a better friend than Little Richard Penniman. He devoted most of his life to it. Lifetime Friend was his last great recorded statement, and even if Long Tall Sally, Miss Molly, and Lucille weren't in the choir, Richard gave the album his heavenly best." Lifetime Friend is back as a 12" long player, and pressed on turquoise vinyl with a printed inner sleeve that includes liner notes by Bill Dahl.

Tracks
- Disc 1 -
1 Great Gosh A'mighty
2 Operator
3 Somebody's Comin'
4 Lifetime Friend
5 Destruction
- Disc 2 -
1 I Found My Way
2 The World Can't Do Me
3 One Ray of Sunshine
4 Someone Cares
5 Big House Reunion

• Released: 12/13/2024
• Format: Vinyl

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