Funk Brothers legend Bob Babbitt dies, aged 74

Motown hero laid down basslines on many of the label's most memorable hitsThe Motown session musician Bob Babbitt, one of the legendary Funk Brothers studio team, ghas died aged 74. Babbitt's bass playing pounded through sauch Motown classics as the Temptations' Ball of Confusion and Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology).Babbitt died on Monday of complications from brain cancer in Nashville, Tennessee, where he had lived for many years, his manager David Spero said in a statement released b...

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