The thrill is gone - R.I.P. B.B. King

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#173239 15-May-2015 18:50

OK so this news is about an hour old now, apologies for that.
Obit on BBC.

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#1306084 15-May-2015 19:17

Yeah i just heard myself on the TV News , an inspiration for many musicans

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#1306086 15-May-2015 19:28

I'm ticked off with myself that I never saw him live. Had plenty of opportunity too, living as I did in Chicago for over a decade ...

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#1306087 15-May-2015 19:41

THE KING IS DEAD.
LONG LIVE THE KING.

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#1306088 15-May-2015 20:00

Oh, damn...

It was beautiful. Watched a concert mid-90s and it was thrilling...

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#1306103 15-May-2015 20:23

Sat next to him on a flight years ago from Huntsville AL to Dallas. I had no idea who he was while we chatted until the end of the flight when he got his briefcase down, I saw his name on the tag and then the penny dropped. Really nice bloke.

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#1306105 15-May-2015 20:26

kiwitrc: Sat next to him on a flight years ago from Huntsville AL to Dallas. I had no idea who he was while we chatted until the end of the flight when he got his briefcase down, I saw his name on the tag and then the penny dropped. Really nice bloke.

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(Apparently not. Awesome that you had a chat to him though!)

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#1306106 15-May-2015 20:34

That vibrato... once seen and heard never forgotten. The last of the Three Kings Of Blues, he was quite an inspiration.

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#1306148 15-May-2015 21:47

He was one of the greatest blues musicians ever. Sad loss. However his music lives on forever.