Like previous #1-hit subject Tom Dooley, Stagger Lee (or "Stagolee," or "Stack-O-Lee," depending on which version you prefer) was a real person. Lee Shelton was a St. Louis pimp and gambler who, in ...

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 ...

This week’s “All The Years Live” video from Grateful Dead HQ features a 7/1/92 “Stagger Lee,” filmed live at Buckeye Lake Music Center in Thornville, Ohio. “Debuting in 1978, ‘Stagger Lee’ was a ...

Lloyd Price, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer behind the groundbreaking 1950s pop/R&B hits “Personality” and “Stagger Lee,” died on May 3 at the age of 88. By Gail Mitchell Lloyd Price, the Rock and ...

Here, we honor the late Lloyd Price with a look back at his lone No. 1: the exhilarating early rock recording of the well-traveled murder tale "Stagger Lee." By Brad Shoup Contributing Writer Forever ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Lloyd Price, whose hits included “Stagger Lee” and “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” has died at the age of 88, his longtime manager confirmed to CNN. Price died May 3 from ...

Lloyd Price, who soared to the top of the charts with the 1950s hits “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality,” “I’m Gonna Get Married” and the No. 1 smash “Stagger Lee,” died Monday in New Orleans. He was ...

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 ...

The tale of Stagger Lee — or ”Stagolee,” or ”Staggerlee,” or ”Stack-A-Lee,” depending on what version of the story is being sung — has proven remarkably durable, and McCullough and Hendrix explore the ...

Grateful Dead HQ celebrated the new year by revisiting the band’s memorable 12/31/78 stop at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, specifically sharing their set-one “Stagger Lee.” Explains GD ...