Little Richard is one of the ultimate icons in the history of classic rock. During his career, he also recorded songs in other genres. Notably, Otis Redding said Little Richard recorded a song that ...

In his 1958 classic “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” Little Richard wailed about a bad girl who “sure like to ball.” But no doubt — it was the late rock legend who was a sex fiend himself. “I had all these ...

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 became a breakout star in the American music scene in the 1950s for hit songs like “Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly, Miss Molly.” Artists like Big Mama Thornton and Sister Rosetta Tharpe ...

One of the paradoxes of the great early rock ‘n’ rollers is that they possessed a cathartic sexuality and bombs-away rockabilly-on-pep-pills energy that was unlike anything we’d ever seen, yet their ...

Experience the meteoric rise and enduring legacy of Little Richard. American Masters – Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll explores the music icon’s influence and advocacy for the rights ...

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 ...

The new documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything premieres Monday Sept. 4. Above, Little Richard performs in 1975. There is one question that stands at the heart of the CNN documentary Little ...

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 ...

Sundance: It’s as though the film is saying that we’re still not ready to have a full conversation about a Black queer star. Lisa Cortés’ effervescent yet incomplete documentary “Little Richard: I Am ...

Lisa Cortés's film, in perceiving Little Richard as a wild genius of Black and queer culture, sees him more clearly than ever. But Little Richard was always another story. If Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis ...