RIP Sax Player Bobby Keys - ' Mr Brown Sugar'

[skankdelvar]

Longtime Stones' collaborator and Keith Richards' 'best mate in the world' dropped off the twig today aged 70.

Best known for the seminal sax solo in Brown Sugar, Keys also worked with Buddy Holly, Bobby Vee, Lennon, Clapton and many others. A true wild man and subject of many a rock and roll legend, Keys spent the last while battling cirrhosis. We shall not see his like again.

Obit [url="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rolling-stones-saxophonist-bobby-keys-dead-at-70-20141202"]here[/url]

[madshadows]

That's sad news - RIP Bobby.

John

[lowdown]

Yep, real Rock & Roll legend.
Someone somewhere said he was born in 1943 and never ever went to bed.

RIP

[Ticktock]

Sad to hear this. Read his autobiography, a complete hoot !!

[Marvin]

Sad news.

Ready the obit, I loved the term 'Jazzberries' he used.

[KevB]

Probably had enough interesting experiences to fill two lifetimes but RIP all the same.

[blue]

I love Bobby Keys, what a loss. I was always just as excited to see him as any of the other Stones and their extended musical family.

I can't think of a Stones show where I didn't nudge someone next to me and say; [i] "I hope Bobby is with them tonight."[/i]

Another huge player in Rock history gone and off to bigger things.

RIP

Blue

Edited December 3, 2014 by blue

[chris_b]

I first noticed him with Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

Sad loss.