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Bobby Whitlock dead: Co-founder of blues-rock band Derek and the Dominos dies aged 77
Rock singer Bobby Whitlock has died at the age of 77, his manager has confirmed. The music legend was a co-founder of Derek & the Dominos and had a chart career that stretch back to the early 1970s.
The star's manager, Carole Kaye, shared the news on Sunday, revealing Bobby had passed away at 1:20am at his home in Texas, USA. His passing came after a battle against cancer.
As well as being a music maker in his own right, Bobby worked as a sessions musician and played with some of the biggest names in modern music history. He played with Beatles legend George Harrison on his album All Things Must Pass.
And Eric Clapton was his co-star in the band Derek and the Dominos. The duo became close after playing together after Bobby performed in Delaney & Bonnie and Friends.
Born in Memphis, the singer was signed to Stax Records and released his first album in 1972. His most recent solo album was Where There's a Will, There's a Way: The ABC-Dunhill Recordings in 2013.
Bobby's wife, CoCo Carmel Whitlock, shared a heartbreaking tribute following his death on Sunday. TMZ reports her saying: "How do you express in but a few words the grandness of one man who came from abject poverty in the south to heights unimagined in such a short time?
"My love Bobby looked at life as an adventure taking me by the hand leading me through a world of wonderment from music to poetry and painting.."
She added: "I feel his hands that were so intensely expressive and warm on my face and the small of my back whenever I close my eyes, he is there." The couple had been married since 2005 - when they tied-the-knot in a ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas Eve.
