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THOMPSONVILLE, Illinois (KWWL/WSIL) -- Little Richard's death Saturday sent stations to digging through their archives to see what they had on the rock and roll music legend. KWWL's Collin Dorsey had ...

Little Richard died on Saturday, May 9, 2020 in Tullahoma, Tenn. at the age of 87. This essay was originally published as part of the book Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in ...

Seen in 1966, Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock and roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B ...

Born in Macon, Georgia, on Dec. 5, 1932, Richard Wayne Penniman was the third of Charles and Leva Penniman's 12 children. A slight boy with one leg slightly shorter than another, he found his talent ...

After his career in music, the rock ’n’ roll innovator took up the task of maintaining his legacy — because nobody else was going to do it. By Wesley Morris Alarm was central to the Little Richard ...

Little Richard interacted with The Beatles during their early days. Little Richard liked Paul McCartney and George Harrison more than John Lennon. Subsequently, John revealed what he thought of Little ...

Little Richard, who died Saturday at age 87, was one of the most influential musicians of all time—but a bad record deal and the pervasive racism of the 1950’s American music industry kept the singer ...

"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." ...

Little Richard, the rock and roll pioneer who died on May 9 at age 87, brought a galvanic charge to live performances of such songs as “Tutti Frutti,” “Heebie Jeebies” and “Lucille,” drawing sustained ...