Little Richard, flamboyant wild man of rock ’n’ roll, dies at 87

Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard, who combined the sacred shouts of the black church and the profane sounds of the blues to create some of the world’s first and most influential rock ’n’ roll records, died Saturday morning in Tullahoma, Tennessee. He was 87. His lawyer, Bill Sobel, said the cause was bone […]