A striking ad from the early ’70s celebrates “the man and the woman” – B.B. King is the man, of course, and “Lucille, the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends ...
Sixty-six years passed from the time in 1948 when Riley King auditioned for a spot on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program, until his final performance at the House of Blues on October 3, 2014 in ...
The Mississippi guitar aficionado and father of Lucille was a tireless road warrior. By Phil Gallo, Billboard B.B. King Performing - H 2014 B.B. King, the last of the Southern-born blues musicians who ...
B.B. King was, is, and will remain an American hero of the highest order. He rose from deep Southern poverty to carry the true history and the highest spirit of our people around the world with a most ...
From ZZ Top to Jimmy Page to Susan Tedeschi, B.B. King has been a significant influence on rock and blues artists who came after him. Yet, when we think of the most ubiquitous musicians of either ...
The world is now officially short one legend, but his legacy will live on forever. On Thursday night, B.B. King passed away in his sleep at the age of 89, the same B.B. King who brought us hits like ...
Born Riley B. King on September 16, 1925, he spent his early years near Indianola, Mississippi, where his parents worked as sharecroppers. King's parents split up when he was four, at which point he ...