Instead, in the early hours of the next morning – 60 years ago this week – Cooke was fatally shot ... heartfelt soul devotionals such as “Bring It On Home to Me” and “Cupid”, but ...

On the evening of 10 December 1964, soul sensation Sam Cooke dined with friends ... or heartfelt soul devotionals such as “Bring It On Home to Me” and “Cupid”, but “A Change Is Gonna ...

Sam Cooke's “A Change Is Gonna Come” earns the late singer his first hit on two charts this week, ... [+] doubling the number of rankings it's reached in the U.K. Soul singer Sam Cooke in his ...

Surely it was only a matter of time before Sam Cooke crossed over into the premier league of American entertainers, alongside Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and the rest. Yet in the early hours of this ...

In December 1964, the release of a particularly iconic Sam Cooke song would change the Civil Rights movement and the protest music that served as its backdrop forever—a monumental cultural and ...

Late in 1957, Sam Cooke was making his fans swoon. The smooth, stylish pop of “You Send Me” had just been No.1, and was about to spread Cooke’s name internationally, early in 1958.

If you only know Sam Cooke for his immaculate singing voice, you’re missing out on all the most interesting parts of his story. He got his first break in 1950 as the lead singer for gospel ...

"You Send Me" (1957) made Cooke the first African-American artist to reach #1 on both the R&B and the pop charts ...