Rest in Peace, B.B. King, Dead at Age 89
Blues primogenitor and still-active-till-very-recently guitarist/singer B.B. King died on Friday in Las Vegas. Born Riley B. King in the tiny town of Itta Bena, Mississippi, he was 89 years old. B.B. King's website informs us, "Mr. King passed peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 pm Pacific time May 14 2015."
The official missive's headline, appropriately and emotionally, is "The Thrill Is Gone."
Born in 1925, King released his first full-length album, Singin' the Blues, in 1956. "Mr. King went out on the road and never came back after one of his first recordings reached the top of the rhythm-and-blues charts in 1951," the New York Times writes, going on to relay that "Mr. King considered a 1968 performance at the Fillmore West, the San Francisco rock palace, to have been the moment of his commercial breakthrough, he told a public-television interviewer in 2003."
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