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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: A wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom! Rolling Stone is teaming with Bungalow Media + Entertainment to develop Little Richard: I Am Everything. The documentary, which will be directed by Lisa ...

Filmmaker Lisa Cortés believes that if deacon’s-son-turned-rock-legend Little Richard had been whispering anything in her ear while she was making her documentary “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” it ...

Little Richard: I Am Everything (now streaming on Max, formerly known as HBO Max), directed and co-produced by Emmy winner Lisa Cortés (The Apollo), tackles the life and legacy of the man born Richard ...

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 ...

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 one of ...

'Little Richard: I Am Everything' is set to be directed by Lisa Cortés and produced by Dee Rees. By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital CNN Films and HBO Max have commissioned a documentary ...

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 ...

Little Richard is a legendary rocker, who died in May 2020. He had one son Danny Jones Penniman, who he adopted with his ex-wife Ernestine Harvin. Danny continued working with his dad during the ...

Collaborators and eyewitnesses recall the colourful, groundbreaking life and times of Little Richard, a founding father of rock'n'roll Originally published in Uncut Take 279 [August 2020] following ...