As a boy, they called him War Hawk for his singing voice. At 10 he became a faith healer, before joining the circus to perform as "drag baby" Princess Lavonne. Women threw their panties at him on stage and his mixed race, hotel room orgies have become the stuff of legend. They say he had a threesome with Buddy Holly. When he played, white kids were leaping off the balconies to get down into the dancing, shouting, black crowd in the segregated floor seats. At 25, he quit secular music to become a preacher, and when he came back to rock, The Beatles opened for his return tour. All before 1965. Elvis? Elvis was a talented puppet, a cover artist, an acceptable rebel. Little Richard Penniman fucked gospel and r&b and blues and honky tonk and gave birth to rock'n'roll.
I don't know who took this picture, and I wish I did.
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