A striking ad from the early ’70s celebrates “the man and the woman” – B.B. King is the man, of course, and “Lucille, the ...

Sixty-six years passed from the time in 1948 when Riley King auditioned for a spot on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program, until his final performance at the House of Blues on October 3, 2014 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends ...

The thrill really is gone: B.B. King has died at 89. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In a career that lasted almost seven decades, ...

This year marks five years since B.B. King‘s death, but the thrill of King’s music will live on during two ambitious nights: February 16th and 17th, 2020, at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New ...

From ZZ Top to Jimmy Page to Susan Tedeschi, B.B. King has been a significant influence on rock and blues artists who came after him. Yet, when we think of the most ubiquitous musicians of either ...

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The world is now officially short one legend, but his legacy will live on forever. On Thursday night, B.B. King passed away in his sleep at the age of 89, the same B.B. King who brought us hits like ...

The Mississippi guitar aficionado and father of Lucille was a tireless road warrior. By Phil Gallo, Billboard B.B. King Performing - H 2014 B.B. King, the last of the Southern-born blues musicians who ...

B.B. King, the legendary blues musician, died Thursday after spending much of the month in hospice care. He was 89. Born Riley B. King in Indianola, Miss., in 1925, King began his life on a plantation ...

In 1980, Gibson introduced its first B.B. King signature guitar, a black ES-355 Thinline Dual Pickup Stereo Varitone model with a TP-6 fine-tuner tailpiece and “Lucille” spelled out in script on the ...