{"id":73250,"date":"2025-08-10T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73250\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:06:08","slug":"70s-music-star-who-played-in-band-with-eric-clapton-dies-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73250\/","title":{"rendered":"70s music star who played in band with Eric Clapton dies – Celebrity News – Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobby Whitlock, cofounder of Derek and the Dominos, has died at 77.<\/p>\n

Whitlock\u2019s manager, Carol Kaye, told TMZ<\/a> he passed away early Sunday at 1:20 a.m. at his home in Texas<\/a> following a brief illness.<\/p>\n

Family members were by his side. She said relatives are working to select a charity where fans can make donations in his memory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His wife, Coco Carmel Whitlock, remembered his journey from humble beginnings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow 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?\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Born in Tennessee, Whitlock\u2019s musical roots ran deep. As a teenager, he was a regular presence at Memphis\u2019 legendary Stax Studios, where he became the first white artist signed to the storied soul label.<\/p>\n

Stax played a pivotal role in shaping the \u201cMemphis Sound\u201d of the 1960s, and Whitlock\u2019s early work there set the stage for his career.<\/p>\n

In 1970, he teamed with Eric Clapton to form Derek and the Dominos, contributing heavily to their album Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bobby Whitlock, cofounder of Derek and the Dominos, has died at 77. Whitlock\u2019s manager, Carol Kaye, told TMZ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[52358,52175,236,7569,52357,88,10328,1506,52356],"class_list":["post-73250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-70s-music-star","tag-bobby-whitlock","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-derek-and-the-dominos","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-clapton","tag-hollywood","tag-music-section"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}