BB King: The Life of Riley – review

The great Mississippi-born blues singer and guitarist BB King, was christened Riley B King in 1925, which explains the comic title of this authoritative British documentary on his long, impressive career. BB bore with dignity his exclusion by white society and the domination of the region he grew up in by the Ku Klux Klan. But it was from a white employer that he got his first decent guitar, and it was the admiration of British musicians – the Stones, the Beatles and Eric Clapton among them â€...

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