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 ...

The word “fearless” perhaps best defines the late Little Richard. A pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll who broke the color barrier in the 1950s with hits like “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally,” the Georgia ...

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We really don’t talk enough about Little Richard. Though the music legend never failed to remind the world that he invented rock ‘n roll, everyone should be holding him up as a game changer and a ...

Little Richard saw The Beatles perform at The Cavern Club before they were global superstars. Subsequently, he turned down 50% ownership of the band. He explained why he made this decision. Little ...

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 ...

Move over Elvis Presley, it's time to take a look at the man who many consider the true king of rock 'n roll. Magnolia Pictures released a new trailer for the Sundance 2023 documentary Little Richard: ...

A stirring addition to such revisionist rock and roll-related documentaries as “Summer of Soul (Or… When The Revolution Could Not be Televised”), “The Velvet Underground” and “Moonage Daydream,” Lisa ...

Rolling Stone once released a list of the 100 greatest musicians and deemed The Beatles artistically superior to Little Richard. The “Good Golly, Miss Molly” singer responded to the list in an essay.

The late rock ’n’ roll icon Little Richard boldly professed his faith in Jesus Christ in a recently resurfaced interview from 1982. Little Richard — born Richard Wayne Penniman — told then-NBC “Late ...

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 ...

‘He went both ways,” an old friend of the singer Little Richard says during “Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll,” and the meaning is as clear as one of those upper-register “wooooos” on ...