B.B. King

Riley Ben King [1]  (Itta Bena (Mississippi), september 16, 1925), better known as B.B. King, is a well known American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. On 15 december2006 the highest civilian award, B.B. King received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. B. B King is seen as one of the greatest blues artists of all time. The music magazineRolling Stone placed King on the third place in a list of the hundred best guitarists. [2]

His best-known hit is probably: "The Thrill Is Gone" from 1970.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == King was born on a plantation and spent much of his childhood, he worked, together with his mother and grandmother, as a sharecropper. He says he had his other talents, for he knows, 35 cents for each 45 kgcotton got paid. Already early hit King in the spell of black musicians like t-Bone Walker and Lonnie Johnson, and jazz artists such as Django Reinhardtand Charlie Christian . King quickly developed his own musical skills in the Church at the singing of gospel.
 * 1.1 Lucille
 * 1.2 B.B. King's Blues Club
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 2.4 Dvds
 * 3 see also
 * 4 external links

B.B. King In 1943 moved to Indianola, Mississippi. Three years later he moved back to Memphis, Tennessee, where he refined his guitar techniques, with the help of his cousin, country blues guitarist Bukka White.

King eventually began his music live on Memphis's WDIA radio station, a station that had made a turn to play by just black music, something very noteworthy was when. On air The Pepticon Boy King began to use the name, which later became Beale Street Blues Boy . That name was shortened to simply Blues Boy, which was eventually B.B. .

King began In 1949 to record songs under contract with RPM Records. Many of his early recordings were produced by Sam Phil Lambert, who later would found the legendary Sun Records .

In the years 1950 B.B. was one of the most important names in rhythm and blues music, with an impressive list of hits such as "You Know I Love You", "Woke Up This Morning," "Please Love Me", "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer," "Whole Lotta Love", "You Upset Me Baby", "Every Day I Have The Blues", "Sneakin' Around," "Ten Long Years", "Bad Luck", "Sweet Little Angel", "On My Word of Honor" and "Please Accept My Love". King started In 1962 at ABC-Paramount Records.

In November 1964 the legendary B.B. King album recorded Live at the Regal Theater in Chicago on Regal.

King found his first success outside the blues market in 1969 with his remake of Roy Hawkins' melody, "The Thrill Is Gone", which became a hit in both the pop and R & B charts, a rare occurrence, especially in those times. Kings success remained last in the years 1970 with songs like "To Know You Is to Love You" and "I Like to Live the Love". 1951 to 1985 's King appeared no less than 74 times in the Billboards-R & B charts.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The years 1980, 1990 and 2000 were not so many plates on, but King remained very active in television shows, movies, and about 300 times a year. In 1988 he reached a new generation of fans via the single "When Love Comes To Town", recorded together with the Irish band U2. In 2000 together with guitarist Eric Clapton King took the album Riding With The King on.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2004 an honorary doctorate to King was handed over by the University of Mississippi. Also he also his extensive blues collection donated to the ' Ole Miss Center for Southern Studies '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">King has a very full and very active life led. He possesses a pilot's license, is known as gambler, vegetarian, non-drinker and non-smoker. If diabetic for more than ten years, King is one of the spokesmen of the fight against diabetes. ===Lucille<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === B. b. King live in France (1989).<p lang="en" len="430" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">B.B. King plays especially onguitars and Gibson-tradition, calls them "Lucille".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">This originated in the winter of 1949. King played in Twist, Arkansas, a town in America. During his performance started to fight two people and they kept hitting a barrel of burning gasoline to that if heating service did. Thereby came to the building in fire . When everyone was outside, King realized that he had left his guitar. He then risked his life to get his guitar.

<p lang="en" len="174" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">When King later heard that the fight about a woman who went "Lucille" was called, he decided to call his guitar so, to remind himself never to do such a thing.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Also his dog that has been missing on 27 January 2006 is called "Lucille". The one who can find the dog, will receive a reward in the form a guitar with signature. B.B. King's Blues Club on Beale Streat, Memphis===B.B. King's Blues Club<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">A large company started in 1991 with the establishment of a number of Blues Clubs. This in honor of b. B King, whose name is also used. In 1991, a B.b. King's Blues Club opened on Beale Street in Memphis. In 1994, a second club opened on Universal City Walk in Los Angeles. A third club came in June 2000 in New York on Times Square. Two further clubs opened at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut in January 2002 and another in Nashville in 2003. In 2007, a B.b. King's Blues Club in Orlando opened on International Drive. In 2009 there was a club opened in West Palm Beach. Another club is located in the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. The Memphis, Nashville, Orlando, West Palm Beach and Las Vegas blues clubs are all from the same company. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===