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
on Record. Make sure you click here and
here for our next episode. And um post
your comments down below. Remember, who
loves you? We do. Thanks for watching.
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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