NEW YORK: Blues legend B.B. King, whose crisp but powerful guitar licks made him among the instrument’s greatest masters and a towering influence over generations of musicians, has died at 89.
An impoverished son of a Mississippi sharecropper who turned into one of music’s iconic figures for a half century, King passed away late on Thursday, his official website said in a brief statement that cited one of his most famous songs — “The Thrill is Gone.”