Golden Age: Frankie Lymon tragedy, polygamy & heroin

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1. the definition of a person who sold his soul
   sad

2. Frankie’s story was so messed up. Young, addict, surrounded by predators especially women. Sad smh.

3. He lived a horrific life

4. Frankie could sing his ass off🔥

5. He was also groomed by women way older than him

6. I have a question where was his parents and family?

7. Damn he was only 25 when he died!? That’s crazy

8. That’s why if you noticed from an excerpt from Dick Clark’s “Saturday Night Beechnut Show” in 1958, the white girls in the audience seemingly didn’t look too enthused, even though you can tell that they probably wanted to jump up on the stage and grab, hug and kiss him. They were likely instructed not to show any excitement; that would have been considered shocking in 1958, a bunch of white girls screaming over a young black man.

   That wasn’t uncommon back then: just a year earlier, Frankie was seen on TV dancing with a white girl on a popular dance show, “The Big Beat” at the time. The show was canceled two weeks later. When black singers-especially if they were men- appeared as guest stars on popular dance shows of the era the studios were very careful to be sure that white girls were to express no kind of emotion for them unlike white male singers, whom they would openly scream and swoon over. This shows the rampant racism that existed in the music industry back then.

9. No one sees the devil in the back wtf

10. That evil statue behind him gives me chills wtf

11. I love me some Frankie!!! Rest in peace 🫶🏾

12. ITS SO TRAGIC, THIS YOUNG MAN HAD TO GROW UP TOO FAST , SEEMS LIKE HIS CHILDHOOD STOPPED AT 10. OH MY GOSH OLDER WOMEN KNEW BETTER. SMH. THAT POOR YOUNG MAN, FORCED INTO ADULTHOOD.

13. DAM.. HE REALLY HAD 304s IN EVERY AREA CODE. RIP NATE DOGG AND FRANKIE. 🙏

14. Greedy music producers stealing from talented men of color is a tale as old as time. Sad this young brother got screwed over in life so bad, it couldn’t have been easy being a young black boy in the industry back then. While it’s true his own vices were his undoing, I still wish that someone was there to stand up for him when he needed it.

15. What’s the figure behind him with the horns?🤔

16. What’s that Statue behind him???

17. White people didn’t like us. But they always wanted us to perform for shows.

18. My dad used to say, the worst thing you can do for a young man. Is, to give him what he wants women and riches. He will always self destruct.

19. Drugs have absolutely no boundaries nor does it discriminate.

20. He looks like he could have been Nat King Cole’s son

21. He died an addict and broke…But the record producers are still making money off of his voice to this day…

22. By now, people should know this is fake news. Crazy people still think they were faceless he’s black😂.. whats with the satanic backdrop?

23. Damn he was only 25 when he died!? That’s crazy

24. they used this little black boy for satanic stuff and they put him on drugs early. these people are evil (the one who controls the industry)

25. Performing in front of a demon?
    Wow

26. Wow! He basically was being molested by older women. If he were a little girl and was sleeping with men two times his age people would be upset, but because it’s a boy folks think he is lucky to have an older woman. This kid’s life was doomed from the start. Working a full time job at 10 years old, we’re there not any labor laws back then? I know there were some because the record companies had to have a lawyer and a guardian representing the child’s interest and make sure they only worked a certain amount of hours. Dead at 25, he went through so much in his young life. The movie about his life was good and looks pretty accurate. Another child star tragedy, sad, so much promise if he could’ve stayed out of his own way. I love Goody, Goody and ABC…RIP young brotha

27. THE BAPHOMET BEHIND HIM CLEAR AS DAY 😮 I AM BAFFLED!!

28. I don’t care what anyone says Frankie Lymon was the original Michael Jackson

29. He was a great singer! What a loss for all of us! He lived fast and died young for sure!

30. Damn drugs …. probably felt unloved and tried to numb the pain….😢

31. They did my dog dirty.

32. Damn a lot of my fam got hooked on tht drug in the 70s it was all bad for me ass a kid with lil brothers my mom died at 39 her brothers died too so I understand his different personalities with different people rest in peace Frankie❤

33. So dancing with a white girl on national tv was the beginning of the end of his career

34. Frankie Lymon was a very articulate and charismatic singer. Such great talent gone too soon! 😢