From dreams taking flight to tragic descents, the skies have witnessed the untimely end of many stars whose legacies continue ...

a member of the Stax Records group the Bar-Kays and the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash that killed most of his bandmates and Stax star Otis Redding, has died in Memphis. He was 67.

Otis Redding, William Bell, the Bar-Kays, Isaac Hayes and more. As a rising star in the booming Stax operation, Manning was taken under the wing of co-owner Al Bell, who entrusted him with the ...

The Legacy of Otis Redding’s Posthumous Hit ... be his biggest posthumous hit in 1967 while touring with the Bar-Kays. His fame had started to grow stateside, and countless fans were ...

Soul king Redding ... survivor – Bar-Kays member Ben Cauley – waking up from his sleep just moments before impact. A musical pioneer by his late teens, Buddy Holly's legacy was already secured ...

Otis Redding and his band the Bar-Kays had played shows in Nashville and ... much music throughout the years that the fact that his legacy ended here in Madison just really sparked a journey ...

Someone who truly knows the legacy of the label and its iconic artists ... But on December 10, 1967, plane crash in Wisconsin took the lives of 26-year-old Otis Redding and four members of The ...

Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man,” Otis ... the Bar-Kays working out the still astounding orchestral soul of “Theme From Shaft” for the movie’s director, Gordon Parks. We see clips of Redding ...

Booker T. Jones was in math class at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis when his life suddenly changed forever. David Porter, a fellow student and musician, told Jones he and his ...

July 7: The Bar-Kays, legendary funk band whose studio work backing Stax Records recording artists including Otis Redding carved their place in music history. Pittsburgh’s own Clinton Clegg will ...

The Bar-Kays served as Otis Redding's backing band, most of whom died with him in a 1967 plane crash. Two surviving members formed a new funk/R&B band under the old name. The Bar-Kays cut several ...