From ZZ Top to Jimmy Page to Susan Tedeschi, B.B. King has been a significant influence on rock and blues artists who came after him. Yet, when we think of the most ubiquitous musicians of either ...

B.B. King, born Riley B. King on Sept. 16, 1925, in Itta Bena, Mississippi, was an icon in music history. With his groundbreaking guitar playing and soulful voice, King became a global ambassador of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He was the one to influence the greats, from O.G. Chicago blues phenoms such as Buddy Guy, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, the British ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images The ...

Stax Museum's "B.B. King in Memphis" photo exhibit features images from King’s 1982 Labor Day weekend concert at the Mud Island Amphitheater.

In what would have been B.B. King’s 100 th birthday month, CU Boulder music scholar Shawn O’Neal considers how the legends of blues can be heard in even the fizziest pop of 2025 B.B. King was born to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Windsor lives in Nashville, Tennessee and writes about music. It’s been a little over a decade since the death of B.B. King, ...

Fans, colleagues and friends have paid moving tributes to BB King, who died on Thursday (May 14) at the age of 89. The King of the Blues scored hits with 'Lucille', 'Sweet Black Angel' and 'Rock Me ...

Sept. 16, 2025, will be a milestone in the history of Memphis and American music, as it marks what would have been B.B. King’s 100th birthday. To all who ever heard him play, King was the one true ...

He was born in Berclair, Mississippi, with the name Riley B. King, a last name that would — though he wouldn't know it as a small child — point to the great things he would do. Riley was born on a ...