With proclamations such as “I am the bronze Liberace!,” “If God gave it to you, show it to the world!” and a flippant “Shut up!,” Little Richard undoubtedly commanded attention. But beyond the ...

Rock 'n' roll legend Little Richard is the subject of a new PBS American Masters documentary. He's shown above rehearsing at London's Wembley Stadium in 1972. In 1956, Elvis Presley exploded onto the ...

Political correctness lessens the music doc Little Richard: I Am Everything. In her mostly adulatory documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything, director Lisa Cortés gives the rock ’n’ roll legend ...

This documentary presents the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ’n’ roll” as a man of contradictions. By Ben Kenigsberg An I.C.P. retrospective displays the groundbreaking exuberance and tabloid ...

Rock 'n' roll didn't start with a bang — it started with a wop-bop-a-loo-bop a lop-bom-bom. That's the propulsive beat that drives "Tutti Frutti," the 1955 chart-topping hit that made Richard Penniman ...

‘He went both ways,” an old friend of the singer Little Richard says during “Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll,” and the meaning is as clear as one of those upper-register “wooooos” on ...

In his 1958 classic “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” Little Richard wailed about a bad girl who “sure like to ball.” But no doubt — it was the late rock legend who was a sex fiend himself. “I had all these ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: You probably know “Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly Miss Molly” … but how well do you really know the man behind the music? Little Richard: I Am Everything, now available to ...

Little Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. In everything from his hairstyle to his lyrics, we see the influence of gay contemporaries like Esquerita and Billy Wright. When a 14-year-old ...

How Little Richard fought to be the architect of rock ‘n’ roll Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll Little Richard biography and career timeline Explore Little Richard's life and the major ...