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Little Richard reveals recent heart attack
By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 2 October 2013
Little Richard has revealed that he had a heart attack recently, this only a month on from his saying he was contemplating retiring.
Speaking with Cee Lo Green at an on-stage ‘in conversation’ event in Atlanta last weekend, the 80 year-old, real name Richard Penniman, said: “The other night, I didn’t know I was having a heart attack. I was coughing and my right arm was aching. I told my son, ‘Make the room as cold as ice’. He turned the air conditioning on and I took a baby aspirin. The doctor told me that saved my life”.
Despite seeming relatively well (all things considered) at the time of the interview, Penniman admitted he’d travelled from Nashville, where the attack happened, in a tour bus fitted with a hospital bed.
