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Jan 16, 2024 · Singer Wilson Pickett (1941-2006) was renowned as an energetic and intense performer. He gained international fame with such hits as “Land of 1,000 Dances” and “In the Midnight Hour” and became one of the biggest black music stars of the 1960s and 1970s. A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Pickett remains one of the most unique and ...
Introducing a new generation of music lovers to the legacy of the legendary Music Hall of Famer, the “Wicked” Wilson Pickett!
By Leo Sacks. Showering his volcano of a voice over a stripped-down backbeat, Wilson Pickett was the original Midnight Mover, a man-and-a-half to a legion of female admirers, a modern-day Stagger Lee who fought with the Devil and came out on top.
New recommendations. Wilson Pickett was an American singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, many of...
Jan 20, 2006 · Jan. 20, 2006. Wilson Pickett, the soul music pioneer whose insistent wail turned songs like "In the Midnight Hour" into hits, died yesterday in Virginia. He was 64. The cause was a heart attack ...
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Jan 19, 2006 · January 19, 2006. Legendary soul singer Wilson Pickett died of a heart attack today in Virginia at the age of sixty-four. The singer, who earned the nickname “Wicked Pickett” due to his fiery...
One of the most popular black singers of the 60s, Wilson Pickett helped introduce the aggressive, rhythmic style of black music to a wide audience and has influenced almost countless rnb artists over the years. It all got started in Prattville, Alabama, where he was raised.
