Terry Reid, the British singer who turned down offers to sing with both Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple , has died . He was 75.

The singer had been receiving cancer treatments in recent months.

Reid was born on Nov. 13, 1949, in St. Neots, England, and began performing in British clubs in the early '60s, when the band he was in, Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers, opened for the Rolling Stones .

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By the end of the decade, he was tapped by the Stones as a solo artist to open some of their most high-profile shows. During this era, Reid, known as Superlungs for his powerful voice, also opened for Cream , Fleetwood Mac, and Jethro Tull .

In 1968, as Jimmy Page was assembling the New Yardbirds out of the previous band that ha

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