


Paul McCartney

Billy Porter

Mick Jagger

John Waters

Little Richard

Tom Jones

Nile Rodgers
Nona Hendryx
Valerie June
Fredara Hadley

Lisa Cortés

The story of the Black queer origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard's complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon's life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions.
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