Wednesday, 23 May 2007

Hard Rock: BB King

B.B. King's most identifiable trademark is his guitar Lucille. The story has been told many times before, but for those of you not familiar with the details, here it is ...
One cold night in 1949, two men started fighting and knocked over the barrel of burning kerosene. Everyone, including B.B., ran out the front door of the bar. Once outside, B.B. realized that he left his guitar, a Gibson acoustic, inside the inferno. He went back inside the collapsing building to save his guitar, almost losing his life in the process.
The next morning, B.B. discovered why the two men were fighting the night before. It seems as though they were fighting over a lady, and although he never met the woman, B.B. learned her name was Lucille.
B.B. named that guitar Lucille, and also every guitar he has owned since that night, "to remind me never to do a thing like that again."

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