When Otis Redding died on December 10th, 1967, the 26-year-old was an R&B master cresting into superstardom. In June, he’d introduced his stun-gun soul to the Summer of Love crowd at Monterey Pop, ...

Otis Redding's legacy lives on after nearly 50 years since his passing. Now the first ever authorized Otis Redding biography is out, but you would not be "wasting time,” as the famous Otis Redding ...

Forty years after his passing, the legacy of Otis Redding remains stronger than ever. As the decades have gone by since December 10, 1967 when the world tragically lost one of its greatest soul ...

When he died on December 10, 1967 — on a small plane with members of the soul group the Bar-Kays crashing into the icy waters of Lake Minona, Wisconsin — Otis Redding’s career was definitely on the ...

"Otis Redding was the Crown Prince of Soul, and now the Crown Prince is dead." Thus ended a story that ran in Rolling Stone in January 1968, five weeks after Redding's untimely death at age 26. The ...

Lawyers representing a biographer of Otis Redding will ask a court to dismiss a $15 million libel suit brought against their client on the grounds that the book is protected by Georgia's Anti-SLAPP ...

When the phone rang at the Stax/Volt studios in Memphis in late November of 1967, guitarist Steve Cropper was surprised to hear Otis Redding on the other end, calling from the airport. “Usually Otis ...