Charles R. Cross is the author of "Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix." ON Dec. 11, 1964, Sam Cooke suffered one of the more bizarre deaths in show business history. At 3 that ...

Ed Gordon talks to music journalist Peter Guralnick, whose new book charts the life and tragic death of soul music icon Sam Cooke. Mr. SAM COOKE (Singing) Oh, Jesus... Back-Up Singers ...

Friday night "The Cooke Book" - a tribute to Cooke - opened in ... What it is seems to be a couple of hours of the great songs of Sam Cooke boiled down to a musical theater audience level and ...

Illustrator Nikkolas Smith tells PEOPLE he hopes the forthcoming book “can act as a supplement to Mr. Cooke’s timeless anthem for freedom” A new picture book, based on Sam Cooke’s iconic ...