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

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Keyboarder Bobby Whitlock Died August 10, after a transient sickness. He became 77. “How finish you advise in but a couple of words the grandness of one man who came from abject poverty in the south to heights unimagined in This form of transient time?” His Wife and Collaborator Coco Carmel Said in a Observation to CBS Files. Whitlock Performed Keys for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, and Co-Founded Derek and the Dominos With Clapton in 1970.

Whitlock became Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1948. He came up in the memphis song scnene, learning the organ from Booker T. he became the fundamental white artist signed to stax data, basically based exclusively on 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 Utterly different Assoreted Devour Songs. Whitlock Performed Piano on the titular Music’s 2d Circulation, The “Piano Exit.” In the initiating Credited to Gordon, Whitlock Insisted the Piano Riff Used to be Peaceable by Gordon’s Ex-Female friend Rita Coolidge.

With the exception of His Work with Clapton, Whitlock Also Contributed to George Harrison’s Catalog. He performed organ and piano on All Issues Need to Lag, Collectively with “My Candy Lord.” He also made an an uncredited appearans on the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Predominant St. Whitlock reliased Four Solo Albums, Collectively with Raw velvet with Aspects from Clapton and Harrison.

Derek and the domes broke up in 1971 after the loss of life of allman in a bike atomize. Radle died in 1980 of a kidney infection. Gordon became Committed to a psychological establishment after killing his mother with a hammer. He died there in 2023. With Whitlock’s Passing, Eric Clapton Is Now the Highest Residing Member of Derek and the Dominos.

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