Three Kings Of The Blues Guitar (2)
As if passing the leisure torch from one to the another, a younger Elvis reaches for the hand of Ukelele Ike (‘Uke Child Burse’).
By the eighties King was recognized as a blues legend. He gained a 1984 Grammy for best conventional blues recording for Blues n’ Jazz; he appeared on the album Rattle and Hum with the Irish rock band U2; and he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1988 Grammy awards ceremony. In the early nineteen nineties King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame, obtained a Presidential Medal of Freedom from George Bush (1924-), and even earned a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Live at San Quentin, launched in 1990, earned him one other Grammy. He was also the owner of B. B. King’s Blues Club and Restaurant on Beale Road in Memphis.
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