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BB King

February 2024

  • Prince performing at the 2007 Super Bowl.

    ‘When they cleared the wreckage, it was all that survived’: 10 of history’s most irreplaceable guitars

    As Paul McCartney is reunited with his violin-shaped Hofner bass, we look at equally iconic guitars, from Prince’s phallic symbol to Jimmy Page’s double-necked beast

March 2022

  • Larry McCray.

    Divorce, illness, failure ... how musician Larry McCray beat his own blues

    He wowed the blues scene with his holler – but bad decisions and worse luck sent him into a rut. Now, with a loving relationship and Joe Bonamassa championing him, he says he’s grabbing a second chance

September 2021

  • US blues man BB King

    Father to 15 children … but were any of blues star BB King’s offspring his?

    A new biography says paternity would have been impossible for the musician because he was sterile due to illness and an accident

June 2021

  • James Harman performing at the Blues Alive festival at Sumperk in the Czech Republic in 2017.

    James Harman obituary

    Blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player renowned for his demanding approach as a bandleader

September 2019

  • BB King with one of his Lucille guitars.

    Beloved BB King 'Lucille' guitar sells for $280,000 at auction

    Auction of items from blues guitarist’s estate totals $1.3m, with prize item a prototype Gibson guitar that was stolen and later returned

July 2019

  • BB King In Concert - San Antonio, TX<br>SAN ANTONIO, TX - MAY 22: BB King performs in concert at the Majestic Theater on May 22, 2014 in San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)

    BB King's 'Lucille' guitar to be auctioned along with other personal items

    Blues legend used instrument on tour in his later years and his touring van, jewellery and clothing are also on sale in Beverly Hills

March 2017

  • ‘Actions speak louder than words’ … BB King in 1984.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs with proverbs and idioms

    A reader waxes lyrical in taking us through a playlist from your suggestions. BB King, Frank Sinatra and New Radicals all feature

September 2016

  • Dave Grohl

    From Dave Grohl to Ringo Starr: the secrets of star drummers

    You get none of the credit and do a lot of the work: who’d be a drummer? Deirdre O’Callaghan asks some of the best in the world. Introduction by Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint

August 2016

  • Jason Isbell Performs At O2 Forum Kentish Town In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 22: Jason Isbell performs on stage at the O2 Forum Kentish Town on January 22, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by C Brandon/Redferns)

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs with one word titles

    A reader picks a list from your nominations – songs from Santana, Grateful Dead and Soulsavers all making the cut

December 2015

  • BB King on stage

    The Observer's obituaries of 2015
    BB King remembered by Joe Bonamassa

    The American blues rock guitarist has fond memories of ‘the king of the blues’, who died in Las Vegas

October 2015

  • Buckwheat Zydeco Stanley Dural Jr, aka Buckwheat Zydeco, is a great friend and a great musician. As a Grammy-winning ambassador for Zydeco—the Creole music of southwest Louisiana—he tours the world, bringing music, joy, and culture to audiences everywhere. He is associated with the accordion—the traditional lead instrument in Zydeco—but he is pictured here playing the Hammond organ, his original instrument. Stanley told me that when organ players cross their hands like this it’s called “going cross country.” I love the way the black and white here is in the form of rectangles and right angles. Recording Studio, Woodstock, NY, April 2005

    The hands that play the blues – in pictures

    Joseph A Rosen’s Blues Hands is a photographic look at the strength and diversity of blues music. The book features images from the music photographer’s three-decade-long career photographing some of America’s greatest musicians, including Buddy Guy, Al Green and the Blind Boys of Alabama. Blues Hands is available through Schiffer Publishing and Amazon.com

September 2015

  • Queen of fado Amália Rodrigues during one of her last concerts in 1990 in Lisbon.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: melancholy songs – results

    Broken hearts to bad luck, mood swings to lost love, fado to hip-hop, hard rock to classical, RR’s Ravi Raman selects 13 sorrowful songs from last week’s massive topic

July 2015

  • Julien's Auctions photo of custom-made electric guitar played by the late John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles<br>A custom-made electric guitar played by the late John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles is shown in this Julien's Auctions handout photograph taken at Julien's Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, and released to Reuters on May 18, 2013. The guitar played by the Lennon and Harrison sold at a New York auction on Saturday for $408,000, said officials with the company behind the event. Julien's Gallery/Handout via Reuters (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY) ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. MANDATORY CREDIT

    Guess the guitar hero – from their guitar

    We’ve cut out the faces of 12 axemen with distinctive guitars, so you have to identify the guitarist from their instrument …
  • BB King …

    BB King was not poisoned, autopsy finds

    Blues legend died of natural causes, despite the claims of two of his children
  • BB King

    Coroner finds no evidence that BB King was poisoned before death

    Autopsy sought by two of the musical icon’s 11 adult children shows the cause of death was Alzheimer’s disease with other physical conditions

June 2015

  • BB King's will and the arrangements for his deceased estate were contested by four of his daughters.

    Judge leaves BB King's estate in hands of longtime business manager

  • BB King performing on US television in the early 1970s.

    Letter: BB King was moved by the warmth of the public embrace at the Albert Hall

  • BB King performing in Paris in 2006

    BB King's children suggest blues legend left a second will

  • BB King in concert at Pier Six Pavilion, Baltimore, America - 15 Jul 2010

    BB King family fight to remove longtime aide as estate executor

May 2015

  • Wild horses charge into the central arena during the annual wild stallion capture at the Merfelder Bruch nature reserve, Germany.

    The weekend in pictures
    The weekend in pictures

    A selection of images from around the world, including the FA Cup final, a smiley Guinness World record attempt and a sumo baby-crying contest
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