Paul Kossoff
Back Street Crawler 1973 Paul Kossoff was ranked 51st in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Paul Francis Kossoff (14 September 1950 –19 March 1976) was an English blues rock guitarist. He was most notably a member of the band Free. In December 1965 he saw Eric Clapton with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers at The Refectory, Golders Green, North West London. This encounter inspired him to purchase a Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar. During 1966 Kossoff worked as a junior salesman at Selmer’s Music Shop in Charing Cross Road. He received lessons from session guitarist Colin Falconer who worked in the guitar department at Selmer’s. In 1966 Kossoff joined the Chicago-style blues band Black Cat Bones. The band played with touring blues piano player Champion Jack Dupree, often supporting Fleetwood Mac and other gigs with Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green. Kossoff’s bandmate in Black Cat Bones was drummer Simon Kirke, and the two went on to play on