Legacy of a Showman

A farewell to the one who started it all.

Photo by Yiran Fu on Unsplash

Long before there was ever an Elton, a Bowie, a Freddy, or indeed even Prince, there was the inventor of ‘Rock and Roll showman’.

Richard Wayne Perriman burst onto stages in the late nineteen-fifties, forever changing the listening habits of young music lovers around the world. Freedom of musical expression was never more evident than…