RIP: Bobby Keys

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Saxophone great Bobby Keys passed Tuesday at the age of 70.

 

Perhaps best known for his sax work with the Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar,"  he also appeared on literally thousands of recordings over the years. He began touring with Buddy Holly at age 15 in Texas and also played with Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Harry Nilsson, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker and many others.

 

He never learned to read music, Mr. Keys was a rock ’n’ roller in every sense of the term. Born (almost literally) in the shadow of Buddy Holly, he was a lifelong devotee and practitioner of music with a driving pulse and a hard-living, semi-law-abiding participant in the late-night, sex-booze-and-drug-flavored world of musical celebrity.

 

 

 

 

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RIP Mr. Keys