#Nicky Hopkins

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Nicky Hopkins was an English pianist and organist. He performed on many popular and enduring British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, most notably on songs recorded by the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, the Beatles, the Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Rod Stewart, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Hollies, Cat Stevens, Carly Simon, Harry Nilsson, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jerry Garcia, Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, Art Garfunkel, Badfinger, Graham Parker, Gary Moore, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Donovan. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest studio pianists in the history of popular rock music.

#art #illustration #fan art #music #history #60s #70s #80s #90s #the kinks #the who #the rolling stones #nicky hopkins

[vintagerocker69]

Rolling Stones Guitarist Mick Taylor recording in the basement at Nellcote, 1971 for Exile on the Main Street.

©Dominique Tarlé

#keith richards #rolling stones #rhythm and blues #rock and roll #charlie watts #mick jagger #bill wyman #mick taylor #exile on main street #nicky hopkins #ian stewart #bobby keys #jim price

[jt1674]

#the rolling stones #loving cup #exile on main street #nicky hopkins #what a beautiful buzz

[midchelle]

Cover shoot for George Harrison's Living in the Material World, Los Angeles, 1973 © Pattie Boyd

#unprecedented levels of green in this image. in awe #ringo starr #jim horn #klaus voormann #george harrison #nicky hopkins #jim keltner #last guy is literally just some entertainment lawyer but you know what. he gets a tag #abe somer #they're at his house so its only fair #pattie boyd #by pattie #george h #ringo #klaus #midposts

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some of Robert Malaval's art and photos by Domonique Tarlé and one by John Kelly and these are from the Drouot auction

#the rolling stones #mick jagger #keith richards #brian jones #mick taylor #charlie watts #bill wyman #bluesrock #rockband #60s #70srock #70s #60srock #rocky dzidzornu #rock #the dirty mac #rock and roll circus #anita pallenberg #marlon richards #jake webber #bobby keys #jim price #nicky hopkins #marianne faithfull

[waugh-bao]

#poor little mick #the rolling stones #charlie watts #keith richards #mick jagger #young married band #nicky hopkins #mick taylor

[rolloroberson]

The Rolling Stones - Shine A Light

#the rolling stones #keith richards #mick jagger #charlie watts #nicky hopkins #billy preston #mick taylor #jimmy miller #exile on main street #Youtube

[idrinkyouryouthquake]

Can we just take one fucking minute to appreciate Nicky Hopkins? Aka the greatest sessions pianist of all time (also a founding member of The Jeff Beck Group and the keyboardist in Quicksilver Messenger Service)

No one actually knows everything he played on, this is just what's available on wikipedia and I'd like to double underline the part where it casually mentions that he played with Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock:

Solo albums

The Revolutionary Piano of Nicky Hopkins (1966)

The Tin Man Was a Dreamer (1973)

No More Changes (1975)

Soundtracks

The Fugitive (1992)

Patio (1992)

Namiki Family (1993)

Selected performances and collaborations

with the Rolling Stones

Their Satanic Majesties Request album (1967)

"We Love You" (1968)

"She's a Rainbow" (1968)

"Sympathy for the Devil" (1968)

"Street Fighting Man" (1968)

"Gimme Shelter" (1969)

"Monkey Man" (1969)

"Sway" (1971)

Exile on Main St. (1972)

"Angie" (1973)

"Time Waits for No One" (1974)

"Fool to Cry" (1976)

"Waiting on a Friend" (recorded 1972, released 1981)

with Jeff Beck

"Morning Dew" (1967)

Truth (1967)

"Girl From Mill Valley" on Beck-Ola (1969)

with Joe Cocker

I Can Stand a Little Rain (1974)

"You Are So Beautiful" (1974)

Jamaica Say You Will (1975)

with Art Garfunkel

Breakaway (1975)

Lefty (1988)

with George Harrison

Living in the Material World (1973)

Dark Horse (1974)

Extra Texture (Read All About It) (1975)

with Jefferson Airplane

Volunteers (1969)

"Wooden Ships" (1969)

"Eskimo Blue Day" (1969)

"Hey Fredrick" (1969)

Woodstock Festival set

with the Kinks

The Kink Kontroversy (1965)

Face to Face (1966)

Something Else by the Kinks (1967)

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

with John Lennon

Imagine (1971)

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" (1971)

Walls and Bridges (1974)

with Quicksilver Messenger Service

Shady Grove (composer of "Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder") (1969)

Just for Love (1970)

What About Me (composer of "Spindrifter") (1970)

with Ringo Starr

Ringo (1973)

Goodnight Vienna (1974)

with Rod Stewart

Foot Loose & Fancy Free (1977)

Blondes Have More Fun (1978)

Every Beat of My Heart (1986)

with the Who

My Generation (1965)

"The Song Is Over" and "Getting in Tune" on Who's Next (1971)

"Let's See Action" (1971)

The Who by Numbers (1975)

This isn't even including the selected works section on Wikipedia which WILL NOT EVEN FIT IN THIS TUMBLR POST!!!!!

#nicky hopkins #the rolling stones #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #jeff beck #the kinks #quicksilver messenger service #the who #rod stewart #jefferson airplane #joe cocker #art garfunkel

[krispyweiss]

Rewind: The Who - Who’s Next (1971)

Though it has no filler, Who’s Next is an album that today is unworthy of playing straight through.

For despite its essential perfection, the Who’s second-consecutive masterpiece - Who’s Next followed 1969’s Tommy - is a victim of its own success, rendering the LP’s bookends, “Baba O’Riley” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” unnecessary, despite their exquisite composition, arrangement and performance.

Which leaves the hi-fi at Chez Sound Bites to play “Bargain” through “Behind Blue Eyes” almost exclusively, although the latter, too, is a song classic-rock disc jockeys have seen fit to overexpose. But the bridge - When my fist clenches, crack it open …, is impervious to unimaginative radio playlists.

In any event, guitarist/second lead vocalist Pete Townshend wrote eight instant classics for the album, while bassist extraordinaire John Entwistle contributed one with “My Wife,” on which he also plays the brass and piano. It’s songs such as this that serve to remind listeners that while there is no Who without Pete Townshend, the Who was also a band of, if not equals, then equally essential players, something that’s become more evident in the wake of drummer Keith Moon and Entwistle’s deaths in 1978 and 2002, respectively.

The singular Moon is at his looney peak on such songs as “Bargain” and “Going Mobile,” on which he transforms the drum set into a lead instrument without soloing. The kinetic energy in his playing is the Who’s engine and when Moon switches on the turbo, the band takes off in a way few others have been able to match.

Nicky Hopkins drops in to play piano on the balladic “The Song is Over” and the more-aggressive “Getting in Tune,” the latter being a rare song that leans heavily on a cliché - gettin’ in tune to the straight and narrow - without sounding clichéd. This is Townshend’s genius - as are “Love Ain’t for Keeping” and the other compositions the guitarist cranked out for the group’s fifth studio release.

For a band with the staying power of the Who - and the not-quite-authentic post-1982 lineups that played under its banner - it’s perhaps shocking to remember this classic lineup made only eight albums and just 12 have been released since the band’s 1965 formation. But when records like Who’s Next, not to mention Tommy and Quadrophenia, are among them, quality is the key; quantity an unrealistic dream.

Grade card: The Who - Who’s Next- A

4/7/24

#the who #who’s next #pete townshend #roger daltrey #john entwistle #keith moon #nicky hopkins

[musickickztoo]

Nicky Hopkins  *February 24, 1944

#nicky hopkins #february 24 #the rolling stones #the kinks #the who #the jeff beck group

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Peter Frampton Somethin’s Happening 1974 A&M ————————————————— Tracks: 1. Doobie Wah 2. Golden Goose 3. Underhand 4. I Wanna Go to the Sun 5. Baby (Somethin’s Happening) 6. Waterfall 7. Magic Moon (Da Da Da Da Da!) 8. Sail Away —————————————————

Peter Frampton

Nicky Hopkins

John Siomos

Rick Wills

* Long Live Rock Archive

#PeterFrampton #Peter Frampton #Nicky Hopkins #John Siomos #Rick Wills #Somethin’s Happening #LP #Blues #1974

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Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards on a US flight during the 1972 America Tour , Promoting Exile on the Main Street with Girlfriend at the time Jolie Jones daughter of Quincy Jones.

#jolie jones #mick taylor #keith richards #rolling stones #rhythm and blues #rock and roll #charlie watts #mick jagger #bill wyman #exile on main street #bobby keys #jim price #nicky hopkins #ian stewart

[jt1674]

#jeff beck #beck ola #rice pudding #jeff beck group #nicky hopkins #ron wood #tony newman

[ifelllikeastar]

Nicky Hopkins began playing the piano at the age of three. He was initially tutored by a local piano teacher and in his teens he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London. Physically, Nicky suffered from Crohn's disease for most of his life and a series of operations almost cost him his life in his late teenage years and was bed-ridden for 19 months. Frail health led him to concentrate on working as a session musician instead of joining bands, although he left his mark performing with a wide variety of famous bands.

Nicky performed on many popular and enduring British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, most notably on songs recorded by the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, the Beatles, the Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Rod Stewart, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Hollies, Cat Stevens, Carly Simon, Harry Nilsson, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jerry Garcia, Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, Art Garfunkel, Badfinger, Graham Parker, Gary Moore and Donovan. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest studio pianists in the history of popular rock music.

Nicholas Christian Hopkins died in Nashville, Tennessee on September 6, 1994 at the age of 50.

#nicky hopkins #love #music legend #session musician #piano #organ #rock and roll #boogie woogie #blues #england #tennessee #the who #cat stevens #jeff beck #joe cocker #badfinger #donovan #the beatles #the rolling stones

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Following The River by The Rolling Stones from the deluxe edition of Exile on Main St. - Directors: Julian Gibbs and Julian House

#music #the rolling stones #mick jagger #keith richards #jim price #mick taylor #bill wyman #charlie watts #nicky hopkins #don was #jimmy miller #lisa fischer #cindy mizelle #david campbell #bob clearmountain #music video #julian house #julian gibbs #chloe hayward #jesse richards #nicol scott #katy richardson #shiv pandya #david richard campbell #rolling stones #the glimmer twins #video

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Mick , Nicky , and Brian at the Rock and Roll Circus , 1968

Photo from keystone press

#the rolling stones #mick jagger #brian jones #nicky hopkins #bluesrock #rockband #60s #60srock #rock and roll circus