The two of them famously threw a television set from a hotel window in 1972. Keys and Keith Richards, the Stones’ legendarily profligate guitarist and songwriter, became great friends and frequent companions in, well, profligacy. Jagger’s sexually charged lyrics - on “Brown Sugar,” from “Sticky Fingers.” He was also prominently featured on “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’,” “Happy” and many other Stones songs. Keys’s most famous contribution to rock history is his roaring, lasciviously melodic solo - not unsuited to Mr.
Keys recalled in his 2012 memoir, “Every Night’s a Saturday Night” (written with Bill Ditenhafer), Mick Jagger invited him to sit in on the track “Live With Me,” and thus began an association with the band that went on to include the albums “Sticky Fingers,” “Exile on Main St.,” “Goat’s Head Soup” and “Emotional Rescue” and almost a dozen tours over more than 30 years. He toured with Delaney and Bonnie and was recording with them in 1969 when they shared a Los Angeles studio with the Stones, who were making their album “Let It Bleed.”Īs Mr. Mostly playing tenor and sometimes baritone saxophone, he recorded with a Who’s Who of rock including Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, George Harrison, Carly Simon, Country Joe and the Fish, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker and Sheryl Crow. I have been, will be, don’t see a damn thing wrong with it except the cost.” “I’ve been smoking pot for over 50 years, and I never let a day go by unless I’m in jail,” he said in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Born (almost literally) in the shadow of Buddy Holly, he was a lifelong devotee and practitioner of music with a driving pulse and a hard-living, semi-law-abiding participant in the late-night, sex-booze-and-drug-flavored world of musical celebrity. Keys was a rock ’n’ roller in every sense of the term. His family announced the death, without specifying a cause.Ī self-taught musician who never learned to read music, Mr. Bobby Keys, a Texas-born sideman whose urgent, wailing saxophone solos wove a prominent thread through more than 40 years of rock ’n’ roll, notably with the Rolling Stones, died on Tuesday at his home in Franklin, Tenn.
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