Alexis Korner Biography

Birth of Alexis Korner (born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner)

Joins Chris Barbers Jazz Band

Forms the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club

The group includes, at various times, such influential musicians as Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, Danny Thompson and Dick Heckstall-Smith. Korner and Davies form Blues Incorporated, initially a loose-knit group of musicians with a shared love of electric blues and R&B music

Korner interviews the Jimi Hendrix Experience for the BBC radio showTop Gear. Some of these tracks, including audio of Korner himself, appear on the Hendrix double-CD BBC Sessions, including Korner playing slide guitar on "(Im Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969

CCS record a version of Whole Lotta Love later used as the Top of the Pops theme.

Forms Snape, with Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, and Ian Wallace, previously together in King Crimson

Joins a "supergroup", Rocket 88, a project led by Ian Stewart based around boogie-woogie keyboard players, which featured a rhythm section comprising Jack Bruce and Charlie Watts

Death of Alexis Korner, a lifelong smoker, of lung cancer