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Respects paid to legend King

HIGH-PROFILE tributes were paid to blues legend BB King yesterday after the musician died aged 89.

Fellow musicians Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler paid tribute to the virtuoso electric guitarist.

BB King’s lawyer Brent Bryson said the musician, who suffered from diabetes, died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas on May 14.

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