Singer Little Richard making peace sign as he prepares to perform at Wembley Stadium, 1972. (Photo by Rosemary Matthews/Keystone Features/Getty Images) *The life and contributions of Little ...

Our Call: STREAM IT!Little Richard: I Am Everything is a documentary portrait as big, grand, and rich as its subject. Lisa Cortés really forces viewers to enmesh themselves in the complex ...

A second clip, of Little Richard inducting Otis Redding into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a year later, is even harder to watch. Richard had been inducted into the Rock Hall in 1986, but he’d ...

‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ Review: An Enthralling Portrait of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Most Transgressive King Reviewed at Digital Arts, New York, Jan. 13, 2023. In Sundance Film Festival.

Little Richard lived a vibrant life.. The late rock and roll legend struggled with being a queer Black man in the Jim Crow era South and failed to earn the recognition he believed he deserved as ...

But when Little Richard rose to fame in the 1950s, he’d never heard of the term. ... I’d be able to sit on top of the White House! A lot of things they would do for Elvis and Pat Boone, ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, .Paak delivered powerful drums, sitting being a kit emblazoned with Little Richard’s name. Later, Lionel Richie performed “Lady,” the 1980 hit he wrote for Kenny Rogers , who died ...

It’s as though Little Richard: I Am Everything is saying that we’re still not ready to have a full conversation about a Black queer star.

With defiant innuendo, a propulsive piano style and a voice that seized the listener by the throat, Little Richard became one of the pioneers of rock ’n’ roll. He would say the pioneer of rock ...