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The Last Time I Saw BB King On Stage: Two Years Ago At MSG And He Was Still The King

The great thing about death is it is the reset button in everybody’s brain. King is no longer the elderly man who couldn’t stop touring, he is the vibrant 30 year old electric guitarist changing the blues in the 1950s, and then the breakthrough star in his mid-40s, the hero of the 1960s UK blues movement, and the elder statesman. All those things at once.