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Riley “B.B.” King has been called the “King of the Blues” and “Ambassador of the Blues,” and indeed he’s reigned across the decades as the genre’s most recognizable and influential artist. His half-century of success owes much to his hard work as a touring musician who consistently logged between 200 and 300 shows a year. Through it all he’s remained faithful to the blues while keeping abreast of contemporary trends and deftly incorporating other favored forms - jazz and pop, for instance - into his musical overview. Much like such colleagues and contemporaries as Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker, B.B. King managed to change with the changing times while adhering to his blues roots.
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[One] project for Cole is the upcoming “The World of Nat King Cole,†a retrospective 28-song CD and DVD/documentary companion commemorating the 40th anniversary of Nat King Cole's death in 1965. The documentary can be viewed initially on May 17 on
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[E]ven in death, there can only be one King. Reclaiming his top spot on the list is Elvis Presley, whose estate generated $49 million in the past year. CKX Entertainment, the publicly traded firm which presides over the bulk of the Elvis empire (daughter Lisa Marie Presley retains a 15 percent stake) announced a massive overhaul of Graceland this summer, marking the 30th anniversary of the The King's death. Among the changes are a new hotel convention center, a state-of-the-art multimedia museum and a new, spiffier visitor's center.
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On January 26, 2007, while on tour, King was hospitalized in Galveston, Texas due to a low-grade (100.4°F) fever after a recent bout of influenza. He was released on January 27, after an overnight stay.[7] He resumed his touring on January 30 in Texas and gave another 30 performances in the US.
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As his weight ballooned and his drug habit spiralled out of control, the King's reign was coming to a close. His squalid death punctured the myths surrounding the world's most famous singer.
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The bond formed between long-waiting and hungry-for-“their-Carole” Boise-area Carole King fans and Ms. King was inextricable. So adoring were the over 300 attendees of the first and originally only-planed set, that when King asked them to leave so as to allow others in, most everyone grudgingly agreed.
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