LIFE

Little Boy Blue has gone

Life, John Clewley, Published on 02/07/2013

» I was eight years old when Bobby "Blue" Bland scored his final R'n'B hit That's The Way Love Is in 1963, and it would be a few more years before I bought my first 7-inch vinyl singles (Little Stevie Wonder and the Dave Clark Five were my first purchases). But once I started to get really interested in the golden years of R'n'B _ from the late 40s to the early 60s _ Bland's songs and his influential singing style quickly won me over.