Stax stories! Steve Cropper, Booker T, Eddie Floyd, William Bell interview 2017

On the 50th anniversary of the Stax/Volt Revue first UK tour, Booker T Jones, Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd and William Bell tell their stories of life in Stax Studios in Memphis, how the songs Green Onions, Sitting on the Dock of the Bay and Knock on Wood came about, and their experiences in the history of music. Interviewed in London by Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
0:00 Intro
0:54 Booker T Jones - early days
2:18 Who put the MG's together?
2:54 Memphis - different sides of town
3:50 Stax Records was racially mixed
5:26 Steve Cropper - early days
5:58 Eddie Floyd - early days
7:05 Green Onions
9:04 Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
10:27 Playing these songs again
11:18 Knock on Wood
14:11 The Telecaster
15:17 William Bell - early days
18:10 Segregation in the USA
20:08 Europe differs from the USA
22:04 Has America changed?
24:15 How do you keep your voices
25:34 (False ending...)
25:42 The 1967 European Tour
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Absolute icons. Super talented and superb musicians. Stax's influence is still valid...even 60 years later.