Lloyd Price, R&B legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, dies at 88
Lloyd Price rose to the top of the music charts with 1950s hits “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and “Stagger Lee.”
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Presenter Lloyd Price appears backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Monday, March 14, 2011 in New York. (AP Photo) Author: Dominic Massa / WWL-TV Updated: 1:52 PM EDT May 8, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Lloyd Price, the singer, Kenner native and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who rose to the top of the music charts with 1950s hits “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.
Lloyd Price: Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Kenner native, dies at 88 Dominic Massa / WWL-TV
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Lloyd Price, the singer, Kenner native and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who rose to the top of the music charts with 1950s hits “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.
Price’s manager Tom Tripani confirmed to Rolling Stone that Price died Monday, May 3. No cause of death was provided.
In 1952, Price, then 19, was working out a new song on the piano at his mother s Kenner restaurant when he caught the eye, and ear, of legendary local bandleader and talent scout Dave Bartholomew, who was working with Specialty Records producer Art Rupe.