Spencer Davis, veteran British rocker known for Gimme Some Lovin’, dead at 81 – 9TheFIX

Spencer Davis, the veteran British rock musician renowned for hits that bore his name but he did not sing, died in a hospital Monday while being treated for pneumonia, his agent told the BBC.
While the Spencer Davis Group performed for decades, its biggest hits including such frequently covered mid-1960s classics as ‘Gimme Some Lovin” and ‘I’m a Man’ were sung not by Davis but a teenaged Steve Winwood, making the group, like the Dave Clark 5 and the J. Geils Band, one of several from the era n…

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