Legendary rock ‘n’ roller Little Richard will be the latest inductee into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame. Known for such classics as “Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” Richard will join ...

A year before he died, Johnny Cash was the subject of a tribute album with some of music’s biggest names: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Dwight Yoakam all sang the works of Cash on 2002’s Kindred ...

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 ...

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Little Richard, one of the chief architects of rock 'n' roll whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA/AP) — Little Richard, the trailblazing rock 'n' roll pioneer, has died at the age of 87, his pastor confirmed to the Associated Press. Born as Richard Wayne Penniman, Little Richie ...

Rock 'n' roll didn't start with a bang — it started with a wop-bop-a-loo-bop a lop-bom-bom. That's the propulsive beat that drives "Tutti Frutti," the 1955 chart-topping hit that made Richard Penniman ...

September 12, 2023 • When you think of rockstar royalty, a queer, Southern Black man normally doesn't come to mind. But director Lisa Cortés wants us all to reconsider that thought. Her documentary, ...

Little Richard and the Space Age got into gear at roughly the same time. They both administered hefty shots of heebie-jeebies to a complacent 1950’s world, whose citizens, depending on where they were ...

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 ...

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 ...