https://youtube/watch?v=kNoEjHp0R2Q Sad news for us Rolling Stones fans: Robert Henry “Bobby” Keys: December 18, 1943 - December 2, 2014. At the age of 15, Bobby Keys, from Slaton, Texas started touring with Bobby Vee and fellow Texan Buddy Holly. In 1964, he met the Rolling Stones at the San Antonio Teen Fair and became friends with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, with whom he shared the same birth date, and would end up playing sax on every Stones album from ’69 to ’74, and from 1980 until his death - and performed on every Stones tour from 1970 on (although intermittently) and full time on every tour from 1982 until his death. He can be heard on; Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out, Gimme Shelter, Hot Rocks, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Mains St., Goats Head Soup, It’s Only Rock ’n Roll, Black And Blue, Love You Live, Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You, Sucking In The Seventies, Still Life, Undercover, Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, Flashpoint, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges To Babylon, No Security, Forty Licks, Live Licks, A Bigger Bang, Stripped, Shine A Light and Sweet Summer Sun, among others. Keys played on John Lennon’s first American solo number one hit “Whatever Gets You Thru The Night” and “possibly” Elvis Presley’s “Return To Sender”. Keys is also credited with playing with Lennon in the Plastic Ono Band, and on Lennon’s “Some Time In New York City”, “Walls And Bridges” and “Rock ’n Roll” albums. He also took part in the last known recording session between Paul McCartney and Lennon: “A Toot And A Snore” in ’74. Keys released two albums on his own in the ’70s; a self-titled album that featured Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Eric Clapton in ’72, and “Gimme The Key” in ’75. Keys can also be heard on; Joe Cocker’s “Mad Dogs & Englishmen”, George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass”, Keith Richards’ “Talk Is Cheap” and “Live At The Hollywood Palladium, Ringo Starr’s “Ringo” and “Good Night Vienna”, Ronnie Wood’s “1234”, “Gimme Some Neck” and “Mahoney’s Last Stand”, B.B. King’s “B.B. King In London”, Barbra Streisand’s “Barbra Joan Streisand”, Carly Simon’s “No Secrets” and “Hotcakes”, Chuck Berry’s “Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll”, Dion & The Belmonts “The Wanderer”, Delaney, Bonnie & Friends’ “On Tour With Eric Clapton” and “Accept No Substitutes”, Donovan’s “Cosmic Wheels”, Dr. John’s “The Sun, The Moon & Herbs”, Eric Clapton’s “Eric Clapton, Faces’ “Long Player”, Harry Nilsson’s “Nilsson Schmilsson”, “Son Of Schmilsson”, “Pussy Cats” and “Duit On Mon Dei”, Warren Zevon’s “Warren Zevon”, Humble Pie’s “Rock On”, Joe Ely’s “Lord Of The Highway”, John Hiatt’s “Beneath This Gruff Exterior”, Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s “Kate And Anna McGarrigle”, Keith Moon’s “Two Sides Of The Moon”, Leo Sayer’s “Endless Flight”, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Second Helping”, Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”, Sheryl Crow’s “The Globe Sessions”, Yoko Ono’s “Fly”, Jim Carroll’s “Catholic Boy”, Graham Nash’s “Songs For Beginners” and Joe A. Collier’s “Sonny Joe Blues Band”
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 03:39:44 +0000
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