Helping to craft classic songs by the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Kinks, the Who, Jeff Beck Group, Steve Miller Band, and Jefferson Airplane, Hopkins was one of the most in-demand session musicians in rock & roll for more than three decades. Hopkins’ playing transcended genre: From the locomotive boogie-woogie and blues of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis to the virtuosic expressiveness of Rachmaninoff, Hopkins was known for finding the “magical spaces between the guitars that would wind up filling out the song.”
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And on Piano... Nicky Hopkins
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The Who
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Gimme some truth : the making of John Lennon's Imagine album
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Early on (1964-1966)
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The Who by Numbers
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