home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=93TT2570>
- <title>
- Jan. 04, 1993: Died:Albert King
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 04, 1993 Man of the Year:Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 17
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> DIED. Albert King, 69, blues guitarist; of a heart attack; in
- Memphis, Tennessee. King was a black genius who influenced
- younger white superstars such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric
- Clapton. As their careers flourished, so did his. A lefty who
- played a right-handed guitar, King pulled the strings that
- others pushed, in a uniquely emphatic style.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-