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Bobby Keyes. Bobby Keyes (born September 1953) is an American guitarist and songwriter from Saugus, Massachusetts. [1] He has played as a session guitarist for a variety of artists, and has written songs for artists including New Kids on the Block. In the early 2000s he was back in Boston, releasing a series of instrumental solo recordings.
Dec 4, 2014 · Keith Richards and Bobby Keys perform at the Aragon Ballroom on December 10th, 1988 in Chicago, IL. The Rolling Stones guitarist called Keys his "greatest pal in the world." Jim Steinfeldt/Getty
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Bobby Keyes is an American guitarist and songwriter from Saugus, Massachusetts. He lives in Salisbury, but runs his recording studio, BK Studios (2) in his native Saugus, and plays clubs all over Boston and the North Shore. Then there are the jaunts to Hollywood, where he writes and records with friends like pop star Robin Thicke.
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- Dion and The Belmonts – The Wanderer
- Joe Cocker – The Letter
- The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
- Rolling Stones – Can’T You Hear Me Knocking
- John Lennon – Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
It can be hard to ascertain who played on the original rock’n’roll records. One version of events – held to by Keys himself – asserted that he played on Elvis Presley’s Return to Sender. Another insists it was Boots Randolph. A more significant performance, anyway – assuming it is, as is claimed, a young Keys – is the sax part on Dion’s The Wandere...
The Letter wasn’t an oldie at the point Joe Cocker recorded it for his live album Mad Dogs & Englishmen in 1970 – it had been a hit for the Box Tops in 1967. Cocker’s arrangement slowed it down into a swampy, funky groove, with the brass of Keys and trumpeter Jim Price giving it a bracing power. It also afforded Keys the chance to cut loose, with a...
Keys is most famous for his association with the Stones, and Brown Sugar was his most famous moment. To the end of his time touring with them, the moment he stepped forward to take his hard, cruel solo in Brown Sugar was greeted with a huge cheer. He and Keith Richards had been born on the same day, and the closeness of their relationship was attes...
It seems a shame not to have anything from Exile on Main Street, in which Keys’s saxophone is such a key element in the sonic gumbo, but arguably his greatest single performance came on this track from Sticky Fingers, when he gets the best part of two minutes to unfurl a solo, backed by Ricky Dijon on congas. It starts with a pair of flutters befor...
Keys was beloved by the Beatles as well as the Stones. He worked on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass as well as on this, Lennon’s only US No 1 during his lifetime. This is funky Keys: he crops up repeatedly through the song, but the 15 seconds he gets at the intro are the crucial part: in that brief burst of horn he gets to set the song in mo...
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Dec 2, 2014 · Bobby Keys, the legendary saxophonist most associated with The Rolling Stones, has died. ... Stones guitarist Keith Richards, a longtime friend of Keys and who was born on the same day, Dec. 18 ...
1956–2014. Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, [1] Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Nilsson, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker and ...
Dec 3, 2014 · Dec. 2, 2014. Bobby Keys, a Texas-born sideman whose urgent, wailing saxophone solos wove a prominent thread through more than 40 years of rock ’n’ roll, notably with the Rolling Stones, died ...
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