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14.05.2020 - 13:50 / nme.com
The pioneering musician passed away last weekend
Streams of Little Richard‘s back catalogue soared by over 2000% in the US following the rock’n’roll pioneer’s death last weekend.
The musician born Richard Wayne Penniman passed away on Saturday (May 9) after a battle with bone cancer. He was 87.
Billboard reports that songs by Little Richard experienced a tremendous surge in demand after his death was announced, with 4.1 million US streams of his back catalogue on May 9-10 representing a 2228%
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The early history of rock 'n' roll is a story of segregation -- and Little Richard, who died of bone cancer at 87 on May 9, was a key player in the fight to destroy it.Because of Jim Crow laws, and racism in general, African-American musicians from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Motown revues traveling through the South spent much of the 20th century relegated to black hotels and black restaurants, denied entrance even to hotels where they were headlining.