Even my dress-down 'masc' style is old-ladycore now. This is a cute gilded silver/jade pendant on a vintage midcentury gold fill bar chain made by Ecco, found on my day off visiting a little market in small town Quebec. It was full of bikers, had a bar with gambling machines and had a pet store with dogs, that's how you know you're deep in QC. Below a cover I did of a tune by my favourite old soul who lives in QC.
Rip It Up c/w Ready Teddy was a bolt from the blue for Paul McCartney. He too experienced the epiphany: first Elvis and now this! ‘Little Richard was this voice from heaven or hell, or both. This screaming voice seemed to come from the top of his head. I tried to do it one day and found I could. You had to lose every inhibition and do it.’ Jim McCartney didn’t like it at all, but Paul was singing like a boy possessed, and in a very real sense he was. Absorbing Elvis, Little Richard and Gene Vincent was glorious, and it could block out other feelings. Paul revelled in the sounds of his great American heroes. He loved the way Little Richard hollered in his songs, a high-pitched ‘Wooooooo!’ evident in almost every recording, and found he had the range and talent to imitate this too. Paul would know it as his ‘Little Richard voice’, though Richard himself admitted to having purloined it from Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Wynonie Harris, and Esquerita, the artist whose look, voice and sound he’d all but cloned.
Mark Lewisohn, Tune In, quote from interview by Johnnie Walker, BBC Radio 2, 11 May 2001.
Chief Rocker Busy Bee's Birthday, Bronx, New York, NY, October 25, 1980 [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]
personally loving the "when the customer asks for the manager and an 18 year old kid/ goth girl/ baby faced 5'6 dude walks in" tiktok trend because I'm a manager (for now) and I have a shag mullet and facial piercings