“I should be better recognized today for sure,” Little Richard said in an August 2010 interview with the Wall Street Journal. “I am the beginning. I am the originator.” And indeed, the outrageous ...
Imagine this: After “Purple Rain” came out in 1984, Prince, at age 26, suddenly left showbiz to study Jesus at a small-town college whose entire student body was just a fraction the size of most ...
Editor’s Note: The CNN Film “Little Richard: I Am Everything” tells the story of rock ‘n’ roll’s Black, queer origins. It illustrates clearly just how the revolutionary pop icon’s career laid the ...
Little Richard, the self-described "king and queen" of rock and roll and an outsize influence on everyone from David Bowie to Prince, died Saturday in Tullahoma, Tenn. He was 87 years old. Bill Sobel, ...
Deep in the annals of music history are tales about how young talents such as Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, James Brown, Little Richard, and others ran in the same circles. With so many remembering and ...
Little Richard was a great musician and a true musical icon — but an unreliable narrator, filmmaker Lisa Cortés tells IndieWire. When Little Richard died at age 87 in May 2020 during the depths of the ...
In 1956, Elvis Presley exploded onto the music scene, changing music history. One of the songs on Presley's introductory album was his rendition of "Tutti Frutti," a song released the previous year by ...
How Little Richard fought to be the architect of rock ‘n’ roll Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll Little Richard biography and career timeline Explore Little Richard's life and the major ...