Steven Gaydos Executive VP of ContentWhen pioneering rock ’n’ roll artist Little Richard died recently, fellow ’50s pop music icon Pat Boone’s name was prominently noted in many of the obituaries.
One of Boone’s biggest records of the era was a cover version of Little Richard’s rock classic “Tutti Frutti,” but the references to Boone weren’t all positive, and the term “cultural appropriation” once again figured into the recollections of rock’s early days.
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