Little Richard, the pompadoured prince of rock 'n' roll who injected "wop bop a loo bop" into popular music and influenced musicians from The Beatles to Prince, has died at 87. Jeff Epstein of ...

One of the original rock & roll greats, Little Richard merged the fire of gospel with New Orleans R&B, pounding the piano and wailing with gleeful abandon. While numerous other R&B greats of the early ...

Little Richard was a foundational rock star known for his flamboyant style, but his favorite snack was one he discovered ...

Not long after the sad news of Fats Domino‘s death hit yesterday, we put in an interview request for Little Richard. They may have risen out of different scenes and approached their craft a bit ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Of course, when a man started to playin' piano," said jazz great Jelly Roll Morton to an inquiring Library of Congress historian in the 1930s, "the stamp was on him for life — the femininity stamp." ...

Three months after “The Architect of Rock & Roll” was buried in Huntsville, a mural of Little Richard is being planned for the MidCity District. The mural’s scale will reflect Little Richard’s ...

He was a challenge to 1950s proprieties, wrapped in a package of pleasure and freedom. Hear 17 of his essential songs. By Jon Pareles Wild and outrageous don’t begin to describe Little Richard. He hit ...

Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Little Richard, was one of the seminal figures in the history of rock 'n' roll music, known for signature songs such as "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" ...

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 ...