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Monday, August 11, 2025

Bobby Whitlock - Start All Over [Raw Velvet] Released in US 1972 | REST IN PEACE now Bobby | HERBERG DE KELDER [formerly Le Ramasseur De Mégots]

Start All Over


Bobby Whitlock - Start All Over, from the album Raw Velvet. Released in US 1972 on ABC Dunhill.

Rest In Peace



the Whitlock family through his manager has  anounnced Bobby Whitlock has died and starting with soul forces Sam and Dave and Booker T (sic) he went on to found the short lived Derek and The Domnoes with Eric Clapton, then enjoying a full and varied solo career . . .at once a fine singer songwriter and not a bad guitarist either!

Bobby Whitlock, has died, according to his manager. He was 77.

Whitlock died Sunday morning of cancer, manager Carol Kaye confirmed to CBS News. He was surrounded by his family in Texas, Kaye said. 

The singer-songwriter was a keyboard player and vocalist for Derek and the Domino, the rock band best known for its 1971 album, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.”

In a statement to CBS News, Whitlock's wife, Coco Carmel Whitlock, said, "How do you express in but a few words the grandness of one man who came from abject poverty in the south to heights unimagined in such a short time?"

"As he would always say: 'Life is what you make it, so take it and make it beautiful.' And he did," her statement read



He will be sadly missed


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