Bobby Whitlock, Dead at 77,

legendary m musician, singer,

songwriter. Uh you might know him best

as uh working with Derek and the

Dominoes with Eric Clapton uh through

7071.

He worked with so many people, Sam and

Dave, Book of T and the MGs, Delaney and

Bonnie and friends. his association

association with Delaney and Bonnie

bandmate collap and led to uh Woodlock’s

work with George Harrison on that great

album All Things Must Pass. But yeah, um

this is sad news and my condolences to

his family, his friends. Um I’ve tried

to get Bobby on the show when I first

started this channel and um never can

get him, but um this is sad and I just

found this out from his publicist on her

Facebook page, uh Carol K. So, my

condolence to you, Carol. Um, we kind of

know the same people, but I saw a post

that she had posted right here uh about

the legendary musician and um really

bums me out. Bobby was has a had a

YouTube channel with his his lovely wife

Coco. And I put a video clip here of it.

I I’ll play for you guys in a second.

And it was really a cool channel they

put together. Fabulous stories. She

would ask him questions and he would

answer them and it was really intimate.

And when I saw that channel, I wanted to

get Bobby on the show, but I never could

get him down on the show. But what what

what stories he shares and the people

he’s played with. There’s a photograph

of Bobby with Clapton right there back

in the day. And here’s another one of

him with Dwayne Alman. Cool one. But

yeah, beautiful music. If you get a

chance, try to go on Amazon. I’ll put a

link to one of his records. See if you

could find it. But here’s an album he

did featuring Harrison and Clapton. And

uh fun storyteller as well. Uh here’s a

photograph of Derek and the dominoes.

Uh Eric Clapton, Bobby Jim Gordon,

Carl. Um Jim Gordon, infamous drummer

who actually murdered his mother. Uh Jim

Gordon, very talented musician, played

on a lot of great records from Your So

Vain, had a crazy story, but wrote the

outro for Leila. And of course, you know

that famous scene in Good Fellas. So,

here’s a story of Bobby talking with his

wife on their show that I’m going to

pull up right here for you. Check this

out right here. Get a clip.

Jim, he could play piano, but he

couldn’t play piano. He didn’t have any

feel. He was a great drummer, but he not

didn’t have any feel as a a keyboard

player. And so,

uh, I had the perfect term for a while

ago.

Support. Was that what you

Yeah. I was basically support piano. In

the very intro of of the KOD, you can

hear the piano clearly just by itself.

That’s Jim because he played everything

on down, you know. But you if you’re

listening to the piano, you can hear it

change suddenly. It has a feel to it.

That’s what I’m I’m playing. I played a

support piano on top of his piano to

give it some feel.

So that’s I mean,

if you know what you’re listening for,

you know what I’m playing because it it

goes out there.

I mean, it has a little more flow to it,

you know?

Right. And also, uh, maybe some people

aren’t aware of this, but you didn’t you

added the KOD like after you record.

Oh, yeah. It was a big dispute went down

over even having it on there. We’d

already finished the album. We’ gone

back to England and everything. And then

Jim went out when got with Robert

Stigwood was Eric’s manager and they

worked out some kind of deal cuz I was

against having the on. I was against it.

It had nothing to do with the song, but

it turns out to be a part of it after

all these years.

Well, let me ask you, was was Eric

supportive of having that on there?

No. No. No. Well, you see, there’s a a

particular photograph of us sitting in

the al cove of one of his uh uh cease in

in the guard and you know, and Jeep is

at our feet and everything and

Eric’s kind of looking pissed off like

this and then Jim’s kind of over here.

He’s kind of looking a little bit

apprehensive. We had had the whole big

deal go down about that damn Kota and uh

Jim went behind Eric’s back and went to

Robert Stigwood and worked out a deal to

have it on there. And so that was taken

right after the the cat fight, let’s

say.

And you were sitting next to

I was sitting right next to Eric.

Yeah, you’re Carl was Carl was leaning

up. He said, “I don’t want any part of

this, you know.” And I’m sitting there

next to Eric. So, I knew what had

happened, you know, and I was against it

and everything like that.

So, you’re talking about the promo

photograph

about what maybe half a dozen of those

if

Yeah, there were only a few. You know,

there’s there’s a couple of them

wild.

I didn’t know that story.

That alcohol, but you can see Eric less

than happy and Jim kind of looking over.

Well, ultimately he had no say so

because he Jim worked something out with

Robert Stigwood. They made a deal.

He had already cut a deal with Stiggy

and I was against it. I wasn’t okay with

it and Eric wasn’t okay with it. You can

look in his face and see.

Okay. So, that went on behind his back

and he couldn’t

Yeah.

He had And then you had to go back to

Miami

and record it after that. Oh. And and

we’re at Jim’s place and suddenly we’re

waiting on him. Where is he? This is in

Chelsea. And a white convertible Daytona

comes rolling up that Jim had bought.

Whoa.

I remember seeing something.

That was a bad scene, man.

I remember seeing something about what

Jim was discussing what he got for that.

And the car was the car and a set of

drums.

And a set of drums.

That was the deal that he made with a

Yeah. And I don’t know what all else.

But see, stick with them. They they

didn’t think we were going to live 6

months, you know.

Imagine that the only fun thing that

happened out of that was you got Dwayne

to play on there.

And that wasn’t that much fun.

Oh, please. I mean,

because it was all it was totally out of

tune and Tom had to work best he could

to get that to sound right. We had to do

what we had to do. We was getting ready

to go on tour and so soon as we finished

that we were off doing the Johnny Cash

show and

so well and then what was the decision

to not really play Ila much. Was that

part of it or did you

No, we just didn’t play much.

Well, when you didn’t play the

No, we didn’t play that. Uh that was

never done. That has never been done

live ever.

Wow. you could c you could catch more of

that interview and I’m going to put a

link to um Bobby’s channel with his wife

Coco. They have a great YouTube channel

together they would do and they would

really bring stories, intimate stories.

So, I’ll put a link for that. Um that’s

how I found Bobby. But again, my

condolences to Bobby’s wife, uh to his

friends, family, and his publicist

Carol. Um really sorry. Tragic loss in

the rock and roll uh music world today.

Here’s a great picture of George

Harrison. You could see Clapton. You

could see right there, there’s on the

far side what artist wreck uh I guess is

my right. You could see Bobby right

there. Uh standing up laughing. Man had

such a beautiful smile and uh again a

big lost in rock and roll today. My

condolences. Uh Mr. Bobby Whitlock.

Rest in peace. Dead at the age of 77

years old. I’m not sure the cause of

death. I know it’s it’s stating that he

had some illness, but um he passed away

today, August 10th, 2025. Rest in peace.

Thank you for the great music, sir.

There’s a lot of great stories of this

musician you could look up and check

out. I’m just reporting it right now as

I heard the sad news today. Again,

everybody, I am Stefan. This is Artist

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We’ll catch you all later.

Till then, see you later. It was a

classic picture, Ronnie Parker. That’s

for sure. Thanks for being here, sir.

You rock. Yeah, great picture. Again,

everybody, I am Stefan. This is Artist

on Record. I lost a good one today. Rest

in peace, sir.

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