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 ...

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 ...

Wild and outrageous do not begin to describe Little Richard. He hit American pop like a fireball in the mid-1950s, a hopped-up emissary from cultures that mainstream America barely knew, drawing on ...

Little Richard and the Space Age got into gear at roughly the same time. They both administered hefty shots of heebie-jeebies to a complacent 1950’s world, whose citizens, depending on where they were ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legendary rock ’n’ roll singer and pianist Little Richard died from bone cancer May 9 at the age of 87. As one of the leading figures in rock ’n’ roll when it emerged as a distinct musical form in the ...

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 was a meteor in American culture, an artist who exploded into the collective consciousness and brought the future with him all at once. Little Richard was fond of describing himself as ...

(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 ...

Charles Connor, best known as a drummer for Little Richard in his 1950s heyday, and decades later later a familiar sight to L.A. radio veterans as a security guard at KROQ, died Saturday at age 86.