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

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Keyboarder Bobby Whitlock Died August 10, after a transient sickness. He changed into 77. “How beget you narrate in but a few words the grandness of one man who came from abject poverty within the south to heights unimagined in Such a transient time?” His Wife and Collaborator Coco Carmel Talked about in a Articulate to CBS News. Whitlock Done Keys for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, and Co-Based Derek and the Dominos With Clapton in 1970.

Whitlock changed into Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1948. He came up within the memphis music scnene, finding out the organ from Booker T. he grew to turn into the first white artist signed to stax records, in step with Rolling Stone. In 1970, Whitlock, Eric Clapton Duane Allman, Carl Radle, and Jim Gordon fashioned Derek and the Dominos. Whitlock Co-Wrote Half of the songs on the band’s Layla and Assorted Assoreted Savor Songs. Whitlock Done Piano on the titular Song’s 2d Motion, The “Piano Exit.” Originally Credited to Gordon, Whitlock Insisted the Piano Riff Became Peaceable by Gordon’s Ex-Female friend Rita Coolidge.

Rather then His Work with Clapton, Whitlock Additionally Contributed to George Harrison’s Catalog. He played organ and piano on All Issues Must Trudge, Together with “My Candy Lord.” He moreover made an an uncredited appearans on the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Predominant St. Whitlock reliased Four Solo Albums, Together with Raw velvet with Elements from Clapton and Harrison.

Derek and the domes broke up in 1971 after the loss of life of allman in a motorbike wreck. Radle died in 1980 of a kidney infection. Gordon changed into 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 Simplest Living Member of Derek and the Dominos.

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