Biographer Peter Guralnick's new book is Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Guralnick follows the life of rhythm and blues legend Sam Cooke from his roots in gospel music through his legendary ...
The movie 'One Night in Miami,' directed by Regina King, imagines the conversations between four Black icons in 1964: Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Malcolm X, on the night of Clay's surprise ...
When Peter Guralnick started writing about soul music, he did it for the purest of reasons: to tell others about an art form he revered. The fact that he’s an award-winning biographer of some of the ...
There's no real substitute for the sound of Sam Cooke's music, but the detailed descriptions of his recordings throughout this masterful biography are the next best thing to wearing headphones while ...
At almost 3 in the morning of Dec. 11, 1965, in a seedy motel on Figueroa Avenue in South Central Los Angeles, a drunken, enraged man wearing nothing but his sport coat and a pair of shoes attacked a ...
Legendary soul artist Sam Cooke got his start performing with the Soul Stirrers in Pine Bluff. Samuel Cook, known professionally as Sam Cooke, was born on Jan. 22, 1931, in Clarksdale, Miss., to ...
Producer Romeo Antonio hopes to shine a new light on the hows and whys of the singer-songwriter's death. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer The story of Sam Cooke, the soulful singer-songwriter behind ...
Charles R. Cross is the author of "Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix." ON Dec. 11, 1964, Sam Cooke suffered one of the more bizarre deaths in show business history. At 3 that morning, ...
Sam Cooke's iconic song 'A Change is Gonna Come' became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement, speaking to the struggles of Black Americans, echoing Cooke's own feeling sparked by a 1963 incident at ...
From the 1950s to the early '60s, one of the most successful singing artist was Sam Cooke. He started out as a gospel singer and scored hit after hit on the pop music charts. It's been more than 40 ...
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