One could say that "Stand By Me" changed Stephen Wilson Jr.'s life. The world really took notice of the 46-year-old country music artist when he took center stage at the 2025 CMA Awards and played a ...

Ben E. King, the R&B singer known for generation-defining classics like “Stand By Me” and “Spanish Harlem,” has died. He was 76. King’s publicist Phil Brown earlier confirmed the singer’s death to the ...

“Stand by Me,” the hit by Ben E. King, who died last week, was the fourth-most-popular song of the twentieth century; a 1999 music-industry report revealed that it had been played on the radio and ...

From lefT: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and Ben E. King in 2009, and J. Kevin Swain Getty/Courtesy EXCLUSIVE: More than a hit song, “Stand by Me,” by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and Ben E. King, has ...

“Stand By Me,” which was first performed on April 12, 1961, was written by the triumvirate of Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller. The latter two wrote under the moniker Elmo Glick. King, born ...

Ben E. King, whose soaring vocals made classics of the songs "Stand By Me," ''There Goes My Baby" and other R&B hits in the 1950s and '60s, died Thursday. Publicist Phil Brown reported the death to ...