Derek & the Dominos founder Bobby Whitlock dies at 77

Bobby Whitlock, the founding member of Derek & the Dominos, has passed away at the age of 77.

Carole Kaye, the manager of the co-founder of the blues-rock band, confirmed the heartbreaking news that Whitlock died at his home in Texas.

Cause of Bobby Whitlock’s death?

The musician breathed his last on Sunday, August 10, after a brief battle with cancer, his manager told Variety.

Shortly after the devastating news was broken on the internet, his wife CoCo Carmel Whitlock mourned the death of her husband of two decades.

"How do you express in but a few words the grandness of one man who came from abject poverty in the south to heights unimagined in such a short time?" she raved in her first statement since her husband's passing. 

The wife continued, "My love Bobby looked at life as an adventure taking me by the hand leading me through a world of wonderment from music to poetry and painting."

"I feel his hands that were so intensely expressive and warm on my face and the small of my back whenever I close my eyes, he is there,” she added in a statement to TMZ.

Bobby is survived by his wife, his sister Debbie Wade, and his children Ashley Brown, Beau Whitlock, and Tim Whitlock Kelly.