Talk:B. B. King
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b.b. king rules
B.B. King has a song "Lucille" which actually tells his story of his guitar which is pretty cool, with some really nice riffs in it.
"Riley B. King aka B. B. King " what does the three B mean?
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[edit] I have read some of the stuff in the "early years" section on another page
i suspect plagiarism on the kerosene barrel and such fight stuff in the "early years" section i need to make sure but i am doing a project on BB King and i swear i just read that part in another article and it seems like the EXACT wording of that other article.
I've read this years ago and I don't think it was from Wikipidia. Also, B.B. stands for Blues Boy.
I believe B.B. King stands for Blues Boy King and what I know is yes king started as a radio man and he used to do a corny add on radio for a drink. I've heard king telling the twist Arkansas story many times honestly I dont know if its right or wrong.
whether its or not . B.B. is the king!
[edit] I think there's something wrong with some of the dates...
I'm reading some stuff from the official B.B. King site, and it seems there's some date-skewing going on. It says that he went on the radio BEFORE the dance hall fire in Twist, Arkansas. I don't know what to believe.
[edit] Confusion on birth location/location moved to
The top of this article says that B.B. King was born in Indianola, Mississippi, and it also says that he moved to Indianola in 1943. It gives no indication that he lived anywhere else in between these two time periods. Would someone, who knows more about him than I do, please clarify? Kitambi 23:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Last live concert outside US?
The article reads that his last live concert outside the US took place in July, 2006. I went to see him live just last night in Helsinki, Finland, on the 31st of August. -LadyDee
[edit] Did someone just make this up?
Now this entry says BBKing grew up in Chicago. That's totally wrong. B.B.King is from Mississippi, and that's where he grew up. He went to Memphis when he got a little older. B.B. King was born on a plantation and picked cotton in his youth.
The last fact in the "Trivia" section says that he claims to have had sex before the age of 10, and talks about fathering several children with different mothers. Wikipedia has graffiti every once in a while, so I'm just wondering who got this and where they got it from.
[edit] Django Reinhardt as an influence
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/bb_king.html
- This ref should have been added to the main article has a citation. I have copied it into the section where it mentions BB King's influences. Anger22 23:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
