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Очень жаль что так и не довелось в жизни сходить на его концерт.Огромный человечище,Человек-Эпоха...

In 1947, a new station in Memphis went on the air—WDIA—the first station with an all-black staff with entirely all-black programming and quickly became the #1 station in Memphis reaching 10% of the African-American audience nationwide with its powerful 50,000-watt signal. The station started a blues program in 1948 called the Sepia Swing Club to rival King Biscuit Time as well as KWEM and offered a young guitarist and former-sharecropper from Mississippi named Riley B. King the job of hosting it since he was up and coming and garnered a lot of notice around Memphis. King accepted and decided to choose a bluesy moniker for his DJ gig. He thought of “Blues Boy” King but abbreviated it to B.B. and the rest is history.

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Очень крутой дедушка. Всегда поражало, как он несколькими нотами создавал все.
Уже пошла дележка имущества =(
«Король блюза Би Би Кинг был отравлен - уверены его дочери»

Конечно отравлен! В вискарь, гады, подсыпали, а как же иначе? Банальная причина смерти блюзменов.