The star of this college basketball matinee had arrived. St. John’s coach Rick Pitino, 72 and dapper as ever in a navy blue suit with white pocket square, appeared from the tunnel that led to ...

John Mayall, a musician often called the godfather of British blues and whose 1960s band the Bluesbreakers helped launch the careers of rock star Eric Clapton and members of Fleetwood Mac ...

John Mayall was the linchpin figure behind much of the boom in British blues rock players in the 1960s. The likes of Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jack Bruce and John McVie all passed ...

Or maybe you think of Chicago, home of The Blues Brothers. And then there is John Mayall, an art college student from a middle-class family in Macclesfield on the edge of Manchester, surely the ...

John Mayall was a pioneer of British blues who became known more for the musicians he recruited than for his own playing or singing. As bandleader, Mayall shaped the talents of soon-to-be rock and ...

John Mayall became the “godfather of British blues” by pioneering blues rock and unwittingly nurturing the careers of future Hall of Fame musicians. Mayall helped expose blues music to a wider ...

Joe Bonamassa is glad John Mayall was at least aware of his impending Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. However, “I am sad and slightly pissed off that he didn’t live to see it because he ...

Rock legends have paid tribute to the 'father of British blues' John Mayall following his death in California at the age of 90. Much has been made of how the pioneering musician - and his band ...

As a kid growing up on the outskirts of Manchester, England, John Mayall recognized something personal in the blues records coming over from the United States. He heard joy, agony and stories from ...

Sir Paul McCartney has said John Mayall was a personal mentor and “great” blues pioneer who educated him on the music genre. The musician died aged 90 at his home in California on Monday ...