CHECK IT OUT: The Rolling Stones featuring Bobby Keys on June 24th, 1972 performing “Bitch” live in Fort Worth:

The Rolling Stones’ legendary sax player Bobby Keys died on December 2nd from cirrhosis of the liver at age 70. Keys, who played on some of rock’s most memorable and lasting cuts, was still touring with the Stones up until illness forced him to pull out of the band’s most recent dates in Australia. One of the few souls on the planet able to keep up with Keith Richards, upon Keys’ first work on the Stones’ 1969 Let It Bleed album, the pair — who met in 1964, and shared a December 18th, 1943 birthday — became the closest of friends. Keys, who came from Slaton, Texas, performed with Buddy Holly as a teen and was rumored to be the saxophonist on Elvis Presley’s 1962 Top Two classic, “Return To Sender,” before touring with Bobby Vee.