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The story of highly gifted pianist and unsung hero, Nicky Hopkins, who played with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the  | dG1fbjl0UUliR3hNREk

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00:01And on piano, the legendary Nicky Hopkins.

00:15It was this unique marriage of the rawness of the electric guitars

00:21and the rhythm section and then the wider palette of the piano.

00:26The piano says, has all the colors, can say everything.

00:30And a guy who's as talented as Nicky can take a simple song

00:34and fill it with all kinds of extra meaning and feeling.

00:38Nicky could do the absolute incredible,

00:41you would believe the Buddhist family's in the room,

00:44which for a white English kid in the 1960s was absolutely amazing.

00:48He didn't even realize how amazing he was

00:50until you would take his contribution out.

00:52And then you realize, oh man, that's, you know.

00:55He's adding stuff in there that broadens and deepens the songs,

00:59or he's like right out front.

01:02He could entrance.

01:03He could play just about anything.

01:07It was inspiring.

01:09He was talented.

01:11He was invisible.

01:13It's an instinct.

01:14It's an art form being a good session.

01:18It absolutely blew my mind to see this list of such classic songs

01:24that are still being played today.

01:26And he performed on those.

01:28I started listening to what he's added and it's like, it's genius.

01:31Absolute genius.

01:33Over a 30-year period, Nicky Hopkins would play on over 250 albums.

01:44In the golden age of rock and roll, bands consisted of guitar and drums

01:49until they realized that the piano added harmonic richness and melodic flair.

01:56Then along came the legendary pianist, Nicky Hopkins.

02:18He was just putting together on the piano.

02:20He took part of the piano.

02:21They came in the together and gave him a little bit of the piano.

02:23They came out of a new piano that I was able to get.

02:25And then later, the piano turned back up.

02:27He was like, I remember, you guys did.

02:28And he's able to get me to play with the piano,

02:29and he was able to play with that piano and piano.

02:31And then he was able to play with his piano.

02:33And then he was able to play with that piano.

02:35And then he was able to play the piano.

02:37So it was like, bye for the piano.

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