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Four members of B.B. King’s band will portray themselves in The Thrill Is Gone, an upcoming film that stars The Wire’s Wendell Pierce as the legendary bluesman. The Thrill Is Gone — which King’s ...

“The Thrill Is Gone” from Completely Well (1969) This song, which was originally written by Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951, was turned into a big hit in the late 1960s when B.B. King took it on.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE THRILL IS GONE") GROSS: B.B. King was born in 1925 in Indianola, Miss. He was a sharecropper's son who worked on a plantation until, as a young man, he relocated to Memphis in ...

Working a series of odd jobs (including driving a tractor and street performing) after a move from Mississippi (where he was raised by sharecroppers on a cotton plantation), Riley B. King became known ...

Blackmore's riffing dredges up the sorrowful feeling, while Shatner's signature spoken word delivery, now a little deeper and weathered, adds heft to the hangdog tale of the blues standard. Night ...