Editor’s Note: The CNN Film “Little Richard: I Am Everything” tells the story of rock ‘n’ roll’s ... And just as “Tutti Frutti” helped to usher in a new era of sensuality in ...

A documentary traces Little Richard's life and career, from his gender-bending early days on America's Chitlin' Circuit of R&B clubs to his stardom as an early rock pioneer. A music legend gets a ...

rootie ♪ ♪ Tutti frutti, oh, rootie ♪ -The beat. The up-tempo of it. He was on his way to the rock 'n roll now. -♪ Awop bop a loo bop, a lop bom bom ♪ -It was the first step in crossover.

Lemmy has been considered nothing short of a rock and roll god, but he knew that there were monarchs who were miles above him.

The "American Masters" doc, "Little Richard: The King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll," will air on Friday ... wrote for his 1955 breakthrough hit “Tutti Fruitti” is explored in a new episode ...

good booty/Tutti frutti, good booty!” The song, as Richard wrote it, was about gay sex. In 1955, it would become the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer’s breakthrough hit, catapulting him to mainstream ...

The voice behind early rock-and-roll hits like “Tutti Frutti” and “Good Golly Miss Molly,” Little Richard played a pivotal role in the formation of the genre during the 1950s. He became a ...

Johansen responds with a half-hearted attempt at Little Richard’s famous whoop, immortalized in 1950s songs like “Tutti Frutti ... and blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Born Richard Wayne ...

The rambunctious kid born in Macon, Georgia, in 1932, whose real name was Richard Wayne Penniman, paved the way for black ...

“What would it do to the American mythology of rock music to say that its pioneers ... They argue that “Tutti Frutti” was not just a hot song; it was a Molotov cocktail lobbed at the ...

The entertainment world lost one of its greatest rock and roll actors with the death of ... doing his take on the Little Richard classic “Tutti Frutti” as a way of proving his identity as ...