US EditionSteve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records’ Booker T and the M.G.'s, has died at age 84
Steve Cropper co-wrote iconic soul hits and shaped Memphis music at Stax Records; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
- Steve Cropper, guitarist and songwriter who co-wrote classics like " the Dock of the Bay," has died at age 84.
- Cropper was part of the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.s at Stax Records.
- Cropper's spare, catchy licks and solid rhythm guitar playing helped define the Memphis soul sound.
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Sam & Dave & Wilson & Otis & Aretha & Janis & Booker: The immeasurably sensitive guitarist Steve Cropper has played for everyone – and thus shaped an entire genre forever.
Cropper has worked as a musician and producer on classics by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and the Blues Brothers.
Steve Cropper, the guitarist who left an indelible mark on Memphis soul music as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter, has died at the age of 85.
Music magazine Mojo named him the world's second greatest guitarist of all time, beaten only by Jimi Hendrix. But Steve Cropper was also, among many other things, the architect behind hundreds of soul hits from Staxstudio in Memphis. DN's Martin Jönsson remembers Steve Cropper, who died on Wednesday, aged 84.
Steve Cropper is dead: The guitarist of Booker T. & the M.G.'s and the "Blues Brothers" shaped the soul of Memphis like hardly any other and wrote on several classics of music history.
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