Guitarist Steve Cropper, who left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter at Stax Records, has died, his son Cameron confirmed to Variety on Wednesday. He was 84.
Cropper was best known to the public for his distinctive, economical lead/rhythm work in the hit-making interracial instrumental combo Booker T. & the MG’s, but his playing also fired dozens of tracks – some of which he produced or engineered — cut at Stax Records’ studio by such soul greats as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Rufus and Carla Thomas and Eddie Floyd.
I love this song but that aint Steve Cropper, the wonder of most of the Stax guys were they were young white and black kids coming together over a shared love of Gospel and Soul, they perfectly embodied what America could be in Dr King's vision and rejected what the south still was
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Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of “adjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival.
Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.
Michael Baum
Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
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I love this song but that aint Steve Cropper, the wonder of most of the Stax guys were they were young white and black kids coming together over a shared love of Gospel and Soul, they perfectly embodied what America could be in Dr King's vision and rejected what the south still was
Was in so many shoes, although I remember in both Baywatch and Nash Bridges. Other prominent roles included Mortal Komb and the Man In The High Castle. Did a lot of voice work and guested in pretty much every show he could - he had over 150 credits.
Was in so many shoes, although I remember in both Baywatch and Nash Bridges. Other prominent roles included Mortal Komb and the Man In The High Castle. Did a lot of voice work and guested in pretty much every show he could - he had over 150 credits.
