Article: DEATHS IN THE NEWS

Robert `Pops' Taylor, 72, husband of blues singer Cora "Koko" Taylor, died Wednesday in Mercy Hospital. In addition to serving as his wife's personal manager throughout her career, Mr. Taylor was credited as co-producer of her "Live from Chicago: an Audience with the Queen" album, which earned a Grammy nomination. As a booker for various blues clubs, a manager and a semiprofessional musician, Mr. Taylor was a longtime fixture on the Chicago blues scene and was associated with B.B. King and Muddy Waters before they attained international prominence. The Taylors were sharecropping farmers near Memphis, Tenn. - "nothing fancy, just honest work," explained Koko Taylor - before moving to ...

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