LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 24: Bill Withers speaks onstage at Reel To Reel: Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man at the GRAMMY Museum on February 24, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by ...

Lean On Me is an American biographical drama film that John G. Avildsen directed. The film narrates the intense tale of a principal’s grueling battle and efforts to save his school from acquisition by ...

Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer. Here, we honor the late Bill Withers by diving… ...

Bill Withers, the soulful voice behind R&B classics such as “Lean On Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lovely Day” and “Just the Two of Us,” died Monday from heart complications in Los Angeles. He was 81.

"He was the best of the best in terms of education," Morgan Freeman tells PEOPLE of Joe Clark, who died Wednesday Morgan Freeman is remembering Joe Clark, the high school principal who inspired the ...

On December 29, Principal Joe Clark, the inspiration behind the 1989 film, Lean on Me, passed away at the age of 82 after a long battle with an unspecified illness. Clark, who became infamous for ...

When Bill Withers wrote “Lean on Me” in 1972, toying around on a small piano with only the phrase ‘lean on me’ to guide him, he never could have expected the song — about a rural man’s loneliness in ...

"Rocky" director Avildsen was stressed out over "hundreds of kid" extras during the 1989 production, Imperioli said. Michael Imperioli is reflecting on his first Hollywood gig, one that made him ...

Joe Clark, the uncompromising New Jersey high school principal who employed a bullhorn and baseball bat to round his students into shape en route to becoming the subject of the inspirational Morgan ...

On December 29, Principal Joe Clark, the inspiration behind the 1989 film, Lean on Me, passed away at the age of 82 after a long battle with an unspecified illness. Clark, who became infamous for ...