Little richard

Remembering the life of legendary musician Little Richard in photos.

As if 2020 couldn’t get any worse, now we’ve lost The Architect of Rock & Roll. Little Richard often said, “I am rock and roll,” and he was right. Look how he influenced the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix…

The pioneering musician, whose songs Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally were among the most flamboyant of the rock’n’roll era, has died aged 87. We look back over his life and career

A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.

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Singer. He was an American R&B, Gospel, Soul, and Rock & Roll Singer as well as a songwriter and pianist. Born in poverty as Richard Wayne Penniman, the third of twelve children, his first name should have been Ricardo, but an error resulted in Richard instead. His initial musical influence was gospel. He...

The musician, who died on Saturday aged 87, was a pioneer in looks as well as sounds, influencing everything from James Brown’s quiff to Prince’s midriff

A Points South essay from our Winter 2019 Music Issue featuring South Carolina.

The pompadour, the pancake, the pantsuits, the pink — in style as in music, Little Richard led the way.

...is that he is arrogant, stubborn, hypocritical and pretentious. Or is he? As he approaches his 60th birthday, Elizabeth Day joins him in France and discovers just how wrong you can be