Set to a melancholy arrangement of strings and horns, “A Change Is Gonna Come” became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement ...

According to The Boston Globe associate editor Renée Graham, his politics and popularity made Cooke a target. “Elvis believed that there was a sense in the music industry that Sam was getting ...

For a superior version of the song, go to that of his protégé, Aretha Franklin. Jesse Jackson once said there are two kinds of singing: before Sam Cooke and after Sam Cooke, referring to the ...

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He was telegenic, with a voice of effortless emotive power, and his self-penned material was growing in vision; he’d also foreseen how to survive an exploitative music business, having set up his own ...