Editor’s Note: The CNN Film “Little Richard: I Am Everything” tells the story of rock ‘n’ roll’s Black, queer origins. It illustrates clearly just how the revolutionary pop icon’s career laid the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists have had as profound an impact on the evolution of rock and roll as Little Richard. With his commanding stage presence, virtuosic piano performances, and dynamic vocal ...

Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix have both come to define two different but consecutive eras of rock ‘n’ roll. While the former enjoyed the apex of his fame in the 1950s, the latter would find his ...

Rolling Stone once released a list of the 100 greatest musicians and deemed The Beatles artistically superior to Little Richard. The “Good Golly, Miss Molly” singer responded to the list in an essay.