Donald 'Duck' Dunn

Bass guitarist with Booker T & the MGs, the band at the heart of the Stax soul soundThe soul music created at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, was an indelible part of the soundtrack of the 1960s. The magisterial and hypnotic bass-guitar lines on hits by Booker T & the MGs, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes and many others were created by Donald "Duck" Dunn, who has died aged 70. Dunn died in his sleep at a hotel in Tokyo, where he was on tour with the MGs guitarist Steve Cropper. Dun...

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