Little Richard performs in 2004 at the Westbury Music Fair in Westbury, N.Y. The self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, died Saturday, May 9, 2020. (AP photo)
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Little Richard Laid to Rest at Alma Mater
Historically black college holds memorial service
Little Richard was remembered not just as a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer but a man of generosity and faith at a memorial service at his alma mater in Alabama.