- "I'm so saddened to hear about the passing of Little Richard, he was the biggest inspiration of my early teens and his music still has the same raw electric energy when you play it now as it did ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: You probably know “Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly Miss Molly” … but how well do you really know the man behind the music? Little Richard: I Am Everything, now available to ...

Mick Jagger, Prince, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder are just a few of the musical icons who owe a debt of gratitude to the trailblazing Little Richard. Getty Images The architect of rock ...

No one can do a Little Richard composition like Little Richard. In the finest moments from the rock and roll pioneer — who died Saturday at the age of 87 — self-penned songs were as flamboyant as his ...

Little Richard was a meteor in American culture, an artist who exploded into the collective consciousness and brought the future with him all at once. Little Richard was fond of describing himself as ...

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, ...

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 screaming, preening, scene-stealing wild man of early rock ‘n’ roll with hits like “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally,” died Saturday at 87, Dick Alen, his former agent, confirmed ...

Dion DiMucci was a teenager from the Bronx, New York, when he broke through in 1958 with “I Wonder Why.” He went on to score dozens of Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early Sixties, on his own and ...