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“I know they call (Elvis Presley) the King, but if he is, who crowned him? When was the ceremony-- and why was I not invited? . . . I, too, have been called the King of Rock and Roll. I been called the Queen. I earned the throne ‘cause I am the Originator, the Architect, the Emancipator-- The Founding Father of Rock and Roll.â€
--Little Richard, in Life magazine.
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