Monday, May 18, 2015

B.B. King service in Vegas before Mississippi return

US blues musician B.B. King performing during the Nice Jazz Festival in Nice, France, on July 25, 2001Fans will pay last respects to B.B. King in Las Vegas before the blues legend returns to be buried in his native Mississippi, his estate and reports said Monday. The "King of the Blues" died Thursday at age 89 in Las Vegas, where he kept a home amid years of intense touring that he stopped only months ago. One of his daughters -- Claudette King, a singer who calls herself "The Bluz Queen" -- also reported the wake and said it would be followed by a service on Saturday. Elvis Presley was buried at his Graceland estate, which draws some 500,000 visitors a year and almost single-handedly put Memphis on the tourist map.


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