Profile
Nicky Hopkins
Pianist and Organist
Male
Born
Feb 24, 1944
Hometown
Perivale
Died
Sep 6, 1994
Death Place
United States
Genres
Rock music
Instruments
Keyboard instrume...
Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins was an English pianist and organist. Hopkins recorded and performed on many notable British and American pop and rock music releases from the 1960s through the 1990s including many notable Rolling Stones releases.
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Dolly HopkinsMarried 1973 - 1981
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1944
Birth
Born on February 24, 1944.
TEENAGE
1960
16 Years Old
Hopkins' studies were interrupted in 1960 when he left school at 16 to became the pianist with Screaming Lord Sutch's Savages until, two years later, he and fellow Savages Bernie Watson, Rick Brown (Fenson) and Carlo Little, joined the renowned blues harmonica player Cyril Davies, who had just left Blues Incorporated, and became the Cyril Davies R&B All Stars.
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1963
19 Years Old
However he was forced to leave the All Stars in May 1963 for a series of operations that almost cost him his life and was bed-ridden for nineteen months in his late teenage years.
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TWENTIES
In 1967 he joined The Jeff Beck Group, formed by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck with vocalist Rod Stewart, bassist Ronnie Wood and drummer Micky Waller, playing on the LPs Truth and Beck-Ola.
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Hopkins – along with Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts – released the 1972 album entitled Jamming With Edward! which was recorded during the Stones' Let It Bleed sessions when Stones guitarist Keith Richards was not present in the studio.
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Hopkins failed to make the Stones' 1973 tour of Europe due to ill health and, aside from a guest appearance in 1978, did not play again with the Stones live on stage.
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THIRTIES
1975
31 Years Old
His third solo album, entitled No More Changes (Mercury SRM 11028), was released in 1975.
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FORTIES
1992
48 Years Old
He also released three soundtrack albums in Japan between 1992 and 1993, The Fugitive, Patio and Namiki Family (Toshiba EMI TOCT-6640, TOCT-6841, and TOCT-6914).
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FIFTIES
1994
51 Years Old
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Songwriter and musician Julian Dawson collaborated with Hopkins on one recording, the pianist's last, in spring 1994, a few months before his death in September.
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