Derek and the Dominos co-founder Bobby Whitlock has died at 77. Carol Kaye, Whitlock’s manager, informed TMZ of his passing early Sunday at his Texas home “after a brief illness,” surrounded by family. “How do you express in but a few words the grandness of one man who came from abject poverty in the South to heights unimagined in such a short time? ” his wife, Coco Carmel Whitlock, told TMZ. “My love, Bobby, looked at life as an adventure, taking me by the hand, leading me through a world of wonderment from music to poetry and painting.” Derek and the Dominos was founded by Whitlock, singer Eric Clapton, bassist Carl Radle, and drummer Jim Gordon. The band was most active in the ’70s, when it released the hit song Layla. Beyond playing the keyboard and guitar and writing and singing songs

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