Richard Pryor passed yesterday. And I doubt if there's a soul who grew up in the 1970s who doesn't know why this should be cause for mourning.
The Times of London
The New York Times
The San Francisco Independent Media Center
Richard Pryor passed yesterday. And I doubt if there's a soul who grew up in the 1970s who doesn't know why this should be cause for mourning.
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The second I saw it over the wire while I was on the air, I quickly jumped on the aor and mentioned his passing. However I was working on a top forty radio station at that moment, so if I wasn't playing Fall Out Boy, the kids could have cared less aoubt it. Same thing for the classic rock staion later that night when I went on there. So, as a treat to myself, I did my Mudbone immpression and told the cold and deep joke as a tribute to Richard.
Thank you guys for mentioning his passing and reminding folks of who this man was.
Thanks, Sam. If I were the PD at your station I would have let you do as much Mudbone as you damn well pleased . . . and do it over the air (you can tell why my career in radio was short-lived).
Personally I grew up on Pryor's LPs (and Redd Foxx, and Rudy Rae Moore) and . . . put it this way: There's a lot to be said for the therapeutic effect this kind of genius can have on the cloistered sensibilities of middle class whiteboys such as I was so long ago.
Someone in my office heard it over the weekend here, I completely missed this. Not for the first time I read it first on ICPWAG,TBAWLODC.
"Is It Something I Said?" came out when I was 14, and I bought it back then--and my life was never the same.
Richard, may you wake up in the right motherfucking heaven this time.
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