Chris Willman Music WriterCharles Connor, best known as a drummer for Little Richard in his 1950s heyday, and decades later later a familiar sight to L.A.
radio veterans as a security guard at KROQ, died Saturday at age 86.His daughter, Queenie Connor Sonnefeld, told the Associated Press he died peacefully in his sleep while under hospice care for normal pressure hydrocephalus in Glendale, Calif.Connor established the “choo choo” style of drumming heard throughout “Keep a Knockin’,” one of the most instrumentally influential songs in rock history.
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