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Bobby Keys

1943 - 2014

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Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 – December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. He appears on albums by the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Harry Nilsson, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker and other prominent musicians. Keys played on hundreds of recordings, and was a touring musician from 1956 until his death in 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Bobby Keys is the 1,387th most popular musician (up from 1,512th in 2024), the 7,201st most popular biography from United States (up from 7,619th in 2019) and the 511th most popular American Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Bobby Keys ranks 1,387 out of 3,175. Before him are Parov Stelar, Paquito D'Rivera, Moriz Rosenthal, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Christian Ferdinand Abel, and George Jones. After him are Ola Brunkert, Paul Butterfield, Terry Melcher, John Myung, Jay Chou, and Fats Navarro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Bobby Keys ranks 466. Before him are Kenichi Ohmae, Jonny Nilsson, Borislav Paravac, Androulla Vassiliou, Peter Norton, and Jacques-Pierre Amette. After him are Juan Masnik, Harley Race, Joël Robert, Silvia Cartwright, Günther Beckstein, and Yoram Globus. Among people deceased in 2014, Bobby Keys ranks 317. Before him are Gordon Tullock, Licia Albanese, Stefan Bozhkov, Milan Horvat, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, and Takako Doi. After him are Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Antoine Duhamel, Željko Šturanović, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Lorella De Luca, and J. E. Freeman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bobby Keys ranks 7,203 out of 20,380. Before him are George Jones (1931), Allan Bloom (1930), Colleen Camp (1953), Meg Tilly (1960), Marc Okrand (1948), and John Bray (1875). After him are Brendan Eich (1961), Keith Ferguson (1972), Herschel Savage (1952), Harley Race (1943), Nolan Ryan (1947), and Malcom McLean (1913).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Bobby Keys ranks 511. Before him are Maynard James Keenan (1964), Jorma Kaukonen (1940), Ralph Towner (1940), Renée Fleming (1959), Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941), and George Jones (1931). After him are Paul Butterfield (1942), Terry Melcher (1942), John Myung (1967), Fats Navarro (1923), Frank Thomas (1912), and Steve Aoki (1977).

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