Bruno Mars admitted Little Richard was one of his earliest influences. Mars' song, "Runaway Baby" from his album, "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" was cited by "The New York Times" as "channeling Little Richard". Prior to his passing in 2017, Audioslave's and Soundgarden's frontman Chris Cornell traced his musical influences back to Penniman via the Beatles. In 2007, an eclectic panel of renowned recording artists voted "Tutti Frutti" number one on "Mojo"s "The Top 100 Records That Changed The World", hailing the recording as "the sound of the birth of rock and roll." In April 2012, "Rolling Stone" magazine declared that the song "still has the most inspired rock lyric on record." The same recording was inducted to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2010, with the library claiming the "unique vocalizing over the irresistible beat announced a new era in music". In 2010, "Time" magazine listed "Here's Little Richard" as one of the 100 Greatest and Most Influential Albums of All Time. "Rolling Stone" listed his "Here's Little Richard" at number fifty on the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. He was ranked eighth on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. "Rolling Stone" listed three of Little Richard's recordings, "The Girl Can't Help It", "Long Tall Sally" and "Tutti Frutti", on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Two of the latter songs and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" were listed on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The UK issue of "GQ" named Penniman its Man of the Year in its Legend category in 2010. Penniman appeared in person to receive an honorary degree from his hometown's Mercer University on May 11, 2013. The day before the doctorate of humanities degree was to be bestowed upon him, the mayor of Macon announced that one of Little Richard's childhood homes, an historic site, will be moved to a rejuvenated section of that city's Pleasant Hill district. It will be restored and named the Little Richard Penniman—Pleasant Hill Resource House, a meeting place where local history and artifacts will be displayed as provided by residents. In early 2019, Maggie Gonzalez, a resident of Macon, Georgia, began an online campaign proposing that a statue of Little Richard be erected in downtown Macon, taking the place of a Confederate memorial that currently occupies the space.