{"id":807279,"date":"2020-05-09T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T21:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=996935"},"modified":"2020-05-09T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T21:06:45","slug":"bob-dylan-remembers-little-richard-my-shining-star-and-guiding-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bob-dylan-remembers-little-richard-my-shining-star-and-guiding-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan Remembers Little Richard: \u2018My Shining Star and Guiding Light\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Dylan<\/a>, who dreamed of joining Little Richard<\/a>\u2019s band as a young musician in Minnesota, penned a short tribute to the rock pioneer following his death<\/a> Saturday at the age of 87.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI just heard the news about Little Richard and I\u2019m so grieved,\u201d Dylan wrote. \u201cHe was my shining star and guiding light back when I was only a little boy. His was the original spirit that moved me to do everything I would do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan continued, \u201cI played some shows with him in Europe in the early nineties and got to hang out in his dressing room a lot. He was always generous, kind and humble. And still dynamite as a performer and a musician and you could still learn plenty from him. In his presence he was always the same Little Richard that I first heard and was awed by growing up and I always was the same little boy. Of course he\u2019ll live forever. But it\u2019s like a part of your life is gone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In Dylan\u2019s high school yearbook in 1959, then-senior Robert Zimmerman famously wrote that his life ambition was \u201cto join Little Richard.\u201d As the Star Tribune reported<\/a>, Dylan even attempted to emulate Little Richard\u2019s imitable performing style during his first-ever public performance at a Hibbing High School talent show <\/span> in 1957.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the death of the King of Rock & Roll, many of the artists who Little Richard inspired \u2014 including the Rolling Stones<\/a>, Elton John<\/a>, John Fogerty<\/a> and more \u2014 paid tribute to the music icon<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n