Little Richard, Flamboyant Rock Pioneer, Dies At 87: 'The True Spirit Of Rock 'N' Roll'
Little Richard, who helped shape rock ‘n’ roll as we know it when he burst into popular music in the late 1950s with songs like “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly,” “Long Tall Sally” and his flamboyant showmanship, died at 87 on Saturday of bone cancer in Nashville, Tennessee.
