Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lloyd Price’s 1958 hit “Stagger Lee” tells a dark story, but the upbeat New Orleans R&B track became one of the most memorable ...

In the African-American community, the folk song “Stagger Lee” sits alongside “Frankie & Johnny” or “Bonnie and Clyde” as an iconic murder ballad: The story of a brutish thug (Stagger) who kills a man ...

Last weekend we saw Stagger Lee, the Will Power and Justin Ellington musical doing its world premiere at the Dallas Theater Center. All the way through it I was thinking about John Wiley Price. Elaine ...

Lloyd Price’s 1958 hit “Stagger Lee” tells a dark story, but the upbeat New Orleans R&B track became one of the most memorable rock and roll hits of its era. The song climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard ...