Bob Dylan doesn't tweet about just anyone. Bob Dylan probably doesn't tweet at all, really -- he definitely doesn't run his official Twitter account himself. But today, rock and roll pioneer Little Richard died. And, of course, Bob Dylan himself tweeted about him in tribute.
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’ll live forever. But it’s like a part of your life is gone.
— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 9, 2020
Robert Zimmerman, Hibbing High School Class Of 1959, wrote in his yearbook that his goal was "to join Little Richard." A couple years earlier, The Star Tribune reorts, he gave his first-ever public performance at a talent show at his school's auditorium. As the story goes, he sang Little Richard's "Jenny, Jenny, Jenny" and "True Fine Mama" so loudly that the principal pulled the curtain on him and his band early.
