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May 20, 2015 Vol. 8 No. 39
B.B. King dies at 89 By Carolyn W. Gaines B.B. King died last Thursday at home in Las Vegas. Shirley King his daughter said,”The Thrill Is Not Gone.” John Fudenbeg, the coroner of Clark County, Nevada, said the cause was a series of small strokes attributable to Type 2 diabetes. The King of Blues who was in hospice care, had been in poor health since House of Blues October tour date. B.B. King canceled his tour due to
dehydration and exhaustion stemming from the diabetes. Blues icon B.B. King spread joy to billions by giving them the blues. The prestigious musician, along with his real love of his life ‘Lucille’ his guitar, spent 70 years keeping blues alive to the world. He learned as a povertystricken youth in the Mississippi Delta how to thrill his audiences. King exceeded 15,000 shows non-stop touring. The Blues master B.B. out lives his tour
manager Norman Matthews, who died in May 2014. Norman Matthews was blues great legendary-guitarist Roy Gaines driver. The tip-top B.B. King received nearly every accolade in his field: 15 Grammy Awards, Lifetime Achievement in 1987, inductions in the Rock and Roll, Blues Foundation hall of fame, Kennedy Center Honor, Presidential Medal of the Arts, President Medal of Freedom,
PALM DESERT, Calif. — As instructor Robert Cupp watched his psychology statistics class begin its midterm exam, the door to the classroom opened and in walked Cal State San Bernardino President Tomás D. Morales accompanied by about 16 others. The longtime instructor said he initially thought it was an intrusion. “I’m giving a midterm, please leave,” he said to himself. But Morales was undeterred.
He smiled at Cupp’s students. “Based on your feedback, student feedback, and of course, Bob’s colleagues, Bob is the recipient of the second annual Outstanding Lecturer of the Year award here at CSUSB,” Morales told them. The students, many of them still surprised at the intrusion and anxious about the midterm, applauded Cupp. They were experiencing a CSUSB tradition: The president,
accompanied by previous award winners, faculty colleagues and administrators, all barge into the class of the winning instructor, and the president makes the announcement to the instructor’s students. “This is a wonderful, wonderful CSUSB tradition. Bob has just an outstanding excellent record of teaching,” Morales told the students.
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the international Polar Music Prize, honorary doctorates from Yale and Brown. He cut several records starting in 1949 for Bullet Label. B.B. King picked cotton for 35 cents per 200 pounds and sang on street corners for dimes in his youth; people always loved him whenever he played Lucille. President Barrack Obama said,” The blues has lost its King, and America has lost a legend B.B. King.”
Robert Cupp
Buddy Guy said,’’ B.B. King was the greatest guy whom I ever met. The tone he got out of the guitar, the way he shook his left wrist, the way he squeezed the strings...man. He came out with that, and it was all-new to the whole guitar world. How could play so smooth, and He didn’t have to put on a show. The way B.B. did it, is the way we all do it now. He was my Continues on Page 12