Spike Lee - "Rest In Peace To One Of The True Creators Of Rock And Roll. This Is The Commercial I Directed With Little Richard And Michael Jordan, 1991," Oscar winner Spike Lee tweeted.

The death of Little Richard, a flamboyant founding father of rock 'n' roll, led to an outpouring of tributes. The singer, who influenced musicians from The Beatles to Prince, died at 87, it was ...

Born Richard Wayne Penniman in Macon, Georgia, in 1932, Little Richard was the second of 12 children. His father, Bud, kicked him out as a teenager; he was taken in by a white family, who ran the ...

Music critic Simon Price said: “Little Richard was the firecracker who set it all off. Right there at rock’n’roll’s Big Bang, this ungovernable force transcending race, gender and sexuality.

This pattern continued over the decades until his eventual death. “Although I sing rock ’n’ roll, God still loves me,” Little Richard said in a 2009 interview (via The New York Times).

May 15, 2020 Little Richard appears on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. Image dated October 1, 1971. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) I woke up last Saturday morning to news of Little Richard’s ...

Little Richard: Mick Jagger, Chance the Rapper, Michelle Obama react to singer's death Rasha Ali USA TODAY 0:00 ...

Spike Lee - "Rest In Peace To One Of The True Creators Of Rock And Roll. This Is The Commercial I Directed With Little Richard And Michael Jordan, 1991," Oscar winner Spike Lee tweeted.

Reaction to the death of rock 'n' roll pioneer Little Richard, who died Saturday at 87. Mick Jagger mickjagger 3.5M followers View profile ...

"His music still has the same raw electric energy when you play it now as it did when it first shot through the music scene in the mid 50's," Mick Jagger wrote/ ...