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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...