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John Mayall, British Blues-Rock Legend and 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Dies at 90
John Mayall, the British blues-rocker whose bands included top musicians, died at 90, months from his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Mayall, whose keening, jazz-inflected tenor vocals reflected the heavy influence of the American singer Mose Allison, fronted his group – known variously as the Blues Breakers or Bluebreakers in its earliest incarnation – on keyboards, harmonica and occasional guitar, and penned dozens of original songs. During the Mark-Almond era – a unique period in which Mayall eschewed the use of a trap drummer – the musician released what was probably his best-known American single, the riff-based “Room to Move”; the live album from which it was drawn, “The Turning Point,” was his lone LP to achieve gold status. “A Hard Road” was a potent showcase for Green, whose album-closing instrumental “The Super-Natural” served as a blueprint for his later composition “Black Magic Woman.” But his time with Mayall was also short-lived, and he wooed his bandleader’s rhythm section to form an even harder-edged blues-rock combo, Fleetwood Mac.
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