Upon impact with a garage, the plane burst into flames and a 25-year-old Rhodes was killed instantly. Soul king Redding became the first artist to achieve a posthumous number one on America's ...

Fooled Around and Fell in Love” poured out of thousands of transistor radios in 1976. and it was sung by Mickey Thomas as a member of the Elvin Bishop Band. Later, when he became the lead singer of ...

Memphis and Shelby County formally affirmed their “sister city” relationship with a longtime cultural ally, Porretta Terme, a ...

named for the Stax “Crown Prince of Dance” whose hits included “Do the Funky Chicken”; Otis Redding Street, in honor of the Stax superstar who died in a 1967 plane crash; and Solmon Burke ...

“I think I was just 16, and Otis Redding had just died in a terrible plane crash. I went to my record store and bought ‘Dock of the Bay’ on the Stax label, a lovely blue label. There was a ...

The Dock of the Bay", the track became Otis Redding's signature song. Tragically, the musician died in a plane accident in December, 1967 when he was only 26. Despite his short career, his vocals ...

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With Otis Redding, we reach this place in him ... It’s also bittersweet, Redding sadly dying in a plane crash six months later at only 26. ‘I’ve Been Loving You Too Long’s enduring power wasn’t made ...