LAS VEGAS (AP) — A standing ovation for B.B. King and more cheers than tears marked a family-and-friends memorial of the late blues great’s life and legacy Saturday in Las Vegas. “B.B. was energetic, Amen?” Pastor Pamela Myrtis Mason said to open the service that drew more than 350 to the Palm Mortuary chapel. “Amen,” […]
Some immediate B.B. King family members will have a chance to visit his body at a Las Vegas funeral home ahead of a Friday public viewing and Saturday private memorial for the blues icon. Attorneys representing one of King’s daughters against King’s agent and power-of-attorney, LaVerne Toney, said Thursday’s family-only viewing was a compromise reached […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of blues legend B.B. King will return next week to the Mississippi Delta where his life and career began. In Memphis, Tennessee — where King won the nickname Beale Street Blues Boy — a tribute will be held May 27 before his body is driven to his hometown of […]
A public viewing for legendary blues musician B.B. King will be held in Las Vegas this coming Friday (May 22), according to reports on Billboard. B.B. King…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Blues legend B.B. King will be buried in Mississippi, but a public viewing and a private service for family members will be held in Las Vegas before his body is sent home. King died Thursday at home in Las Vegas at age 89. His business agent, LaVerne Toney, says the viewing […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says there’s “going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight.” The president issued a statement Friday mourning the death of blues legend B.B. King. He says, “The blues has lost its king, and America has lost a legend.” Obama says King rose from a sharecropper’s son to […]
Legendary blues musician B.B. King has died in Las Vegas, his attorney told the Associated Press late Thursday. The musician, dubbed ‘King of the Blues’ for…
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LAS VEGAS (AP) – B.B. King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of the Blues, died late Thursday at home in Las Vegas. He was 89. His attorney, Brent Bryson, told The Associated Press that King died peacefully in his […]
Legendary blues musician B.B. King has died in Las Vegas, his attorney told the Associated Press late Thursday. The musician, dubbed ‘King of the Blues’ for…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A dispute over B.B. King’s health and wealth was tossed out of court Thursday by a judge in Las Vegas who said two investigations found no evidence the blues legend was being abused. The ruling in Clark County Family Court keeps the 89-year-old musician’s longtime business manager, Laverne Toney (pictured) in […]
B.B. King’s health has been a point of concern among the singer’s fans and family. So much so that King’s daughter, Karen Williams, is claiming that the blues legend’s manager, Laverne Toney, is doing more harm than good with isolating King from his family and celebrity friends like Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton. […]
