DEREK AND The Dominos Co-Founder Bobby Whitlock, Listless at 77

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Keyboarder Bobby Whitlock Died August 10, after a snappily illness. He was 77. “How attain you dispute in however a pair of words the grandness of one man who came from abject poverty in the south to heights unimagined in Such a short time?” His Wife and Collaborator Coco Carmel Acknowledged in a Assertion to CBS News. Whitlock Played Keys for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, and Co-Founded Derek and the Dominos With Clapton in 1970.

Whitlock was Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1948. He came up in the memphis track scnene, studying the organ from Booker T. he grew to become the first white artist signed to stax records, per Rolling Stone. In 1970, Whitlock, Eric Clapton Duane Allman, Carl Radle, and Jim Gordon fashioned Derek and the Dominos. Whitlock Co-Wrote Half the songs on the band’s Layla and Varied Assoreted Admire Songs. Whitlock Played Piano on the titular Song’s 2d Circulation, The “Piano Exit.” First and most necessary Credited to Gordon, Whitlock Insisted the Piano Riff Used to be Silent by Gordon’s Ex-Girlfriend Rita Coolidge.

With the exception of His Work with Clapton, Whitlock Also Contributed to George Harrison’s Catalog. He played organ and piano on All Things Need to Pass, Including “My Sweet Lord.” He also made an an uncredited appearans on the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Vital St. Whitlock reliased Four Solo Albums, Including Raw velvet with Aspects from Clapton and Harrison.

Derek and the domes broke up in 1971 after the demise of allman in a bike smash. Radle died in 1980 of a kidney an infection. Gordon was Dedicated to a psychological institution after killing his mother with a hammer. He died there in 2023. With Whitlock’s Passing, Eric Clapton Is Now the Supreme Living Member of Derek and the Dominos.

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