Bill Black - Brain Tumour

Bill Black was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Devastated, and feeling his time was limited, he signed over responsibilities for the band to guitarist Bob Tucker before undergoing the first of three operations. On 8 October, after the third operation, Black slipped into a coma from which he did not recover, and died two weeks later at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, the very same hospital at which Presley himself was pronounced dead, nearly twelve years later.

Bill Black born September 17, 1926, died October 21, 1965

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