According to The Boston Globe associate editor Renée Graham, his politics and popularity made Cooke a target. “Elvis believed that there was a sense in the music industry that Sam was getting ...
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Sam Cooke, a soul music icon who died 60 years ago this week, wrote the first draft of one of his most famous songs, “A Change Is Gonna Come,” while sitting on a bus in Durham. That’s ...