B.B. King died 5 years ago

5 years ago, the King of the Blues, Riley B. King, known professionally as B.B. King, died in his sleep on May 14, 2015, at the age of 89. B.B. King will be always remembered as the greatest blues artist of his generation. His greatest collaboration is still ongoing, and it didn’t end with his death. As a founding father of the electric blues, B.B. King has left fingerprints all over the landscape of American popular music.
King's biggest hit song “The Thrill is Gone” released in 1970 changed everything in his carrer. Within two years of its release, he had won his first Grammy, appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, sold out venues from Tokyo to Zaire, and fully established himself as the most commercially successful blues artist in history.