As he took his seat at the organ behind Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in the summer of 1965, Barry Goldberg wasn’t sure what would happen. “At the beginning, it was just a gig,” he told Rolling Stone in 2013. “Bob said, ‘You want to play with me tonight?’ I wasn’t a folkie or knew how serious those people were. We started doing our thing, playing that song [‘Like a Rolling Stone’]. At the end, there were boos but also cheers. They felt betrayed by him. But Bob...
- 1/23/2025
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Art Rupe, founder of the trailblazing R&b label Specialty Records that released early classics by artists like Little Richard, Sam Cooke and Lloyd Price, has died at the age of 104.
The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation announced his death Friday, adding that Rupe died at his home in Santa Barbara, California. No cause of death was provided.
As founder and producer at the Los Angeles-based Specialty Records, Rupe oversaw a label that was responsible for songs that laid the bedrock for rock n’ roll: Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti,” Price’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,...
The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation announced his death Friday, adding that Rupe died at his home in Santa Barbara, California. No cause of death was provided.
As founder and producer at the Los Angeles-based Specialty Records, Rupe oversaw a label that was responsible for songs that laid the bedrock for rock n’ roll: Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti,” Price’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,...
- 4/16/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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