Since Little Richard died on May 9, he’s been rightly celebrated as one of the most exciting and influential performers in the canon of American popular music. But in most tributes, the full story of ...

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 ...

It has now been confirmed that the incomparable Little Richard‘s final resting place will be at Oakwood University, the HBCU in Huntsville, Ala that he attended in the 1950s. Penniman, who succumbed ...

Oakwood University was where Little Richard attended school to study theology in the late 1950s Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Little Richard opened up in a 1990 interview with Rolling Stone about his decades-long career and his place in the music industry and music history. Artists like Sister Rosetta Tharpe have been ...

A documentary traces Little Richard's life and career, from his gender-bending early days on America's Chitlin' Circuit of R&B clubs to his stardom as an early rock pioneer. A music legend gets a ...

Music legend Little Richard is as remembered for his unapologetic flamboyance as he is for his dynamic vocals and electrifying stage presence. As the self-proclaimed originator of rock ‘n’ roll, he ...

Little Richard took 1950s America and the world by storm with hits like “Tutti Frutti,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Lucille.” The Beatles and The Rolling Stones supported him, and ...

The Columbusing of Black excellence by white opportunists has long been prevalent in popular culture — never more so than in the realm of music, where everything from Elvis’ hip-shaking to Miley’s ...

The first time I truly understood the kinetic, roof-raising meaning of the phrase “rock’n’roll” was when I attended a Little Richard concert in the summer of 2012. The bouffant-haired icon was 79 then ...

(RNS) — ‘I consider my music sacred,’ the performer of songs like ‘Tutti Frutti’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’ once told an interviewer. (RNS) — Little Richard — the musician known for singing, shouting and ...