"He had the look, he had the voice, he had the manner, he had the charm and he had the savoir-faire." That's Aretha Franklin's judgment on Sam Cooke, a gorgeous man, a sweet, smooth tenor for the ages ...
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 morning, ...