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Early rock & roll drummer Charles Connor — who played with Little Richard, Sam Cooke, and James Brown in the Fifties — died in his home in Glendale, California, after a battle with the brain disorder normal pressure hydrocephalus. He was 86. “He was one of those drummers that was …

2020 was a year of painful losses, and the music world was no exception. Our weekly Rolling Stone Music Now podcast spotlighted the lives of some of the many musicians we lost this year, including one of rock & roll’s founders and two of rock’s greatest-ever virtuosos. Press play on …

In early 1964, a few months before “You Really Got Me” made the Kinks into stars, they released their debut single: a cover of Little Richard‘s “Long Tall Sally.” Like the Beatles, who also covered “Long Tall Sally” in 1964, the Kinks were captivated by the late rock & roll …

Dion DiMucci was a teenager from the Bronx, New York, when he broke through in 1958 with “I Wonder Why.” He went on to score dozens of Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early Sixties, on his own and with his group Dion and the Belmonts, including “Teenager …