Thanks Nicky for all the fairy dust, gems and magic you added to all those Stones' albums. If ever there was a 7th Stone it was you. God bless your cotton socks ❤
@creature307
Жыл бұрын
Shady Grove with Quicksilver was a classic and a great listen to this day.
@DecriminalizeMarijuana
11 ай бұрын
Right On! QMS ☿
@stepanbandera5206
13 күн бұрын
Learned of Nicky when I first heard Who's Next. I will always remember him on "Song is Over". RIP Nicky.
@ricksegal3065
Жыл бұрын
Nicky worked with more bands and stars than anyone else and he was always brilliant. Incredible talent.
@Csharpflat5
Жыл бұрын
He was the greatest of all time.
@andrew63707
Жыл бұрын
While I'm not contradicting any of the observations made about Nicky by either Chris or John, I'd just like to add a little context here that seems absent from the video and the titles portions of this interview. As many know, @NickyHopkins suffered severe and often debilitating pain, along with at least 15 abdominal surgeries starting when he was still a child, as a result of his Crohn's Disease. And those weren't modern-day surgeries like we have now, since he was born on the edge of London a year and a half before the end of WW2 -- when the bombing there was still at its peak and people literally lived on food rations handed out by the government and all resources were in short supply. I didn't live through it, but my Mom did nearby, and was friends with one of Nicky's sisters, and she spoke about The War and Nicky a bit. I don't want to get onto a soapbox here on his behalf, since all are friends and fans of N and many will have lived through The War while I haven't. It just helps to reconcile the picture, I think, of his public notoriety and status as the main pianist back then for not one but at least three of the day's A+ List bands (Stones, Who, Kinks) -- all during the same timeframe and years as each band released its own most well-regarded music -- with the fact that he weighed next to nothing throughout life yet still had his skinny belly cut open in separate surgeries no fewer than 15 times. I've had a hip replaced twice, and that scar tissue is long and tough; I can't imagine the scars on Nicky's lower abdomen. I think when one takes into account all of the medical adversity that he endured over more than 40 of his 50 years, it's easy to understand why he never was able to tour with a band -- Crohn's Disease was not something one could try to manage then like it is now. And if you can't tour then you can't become a core band member, really. So, if you can't become any one band's full-time pianist, why not become all the band's favorite part-time pianist? He was so ahead of his time back then, understanding his own physical limitations from Crohn's, and working around them by just being the baddest-ass Session Pianist on anyone's Rolodex. Nor was he entirely absent from some of the most important live-performances ever, such as Woodstock, and many others. To my understanding, some (not all) of the bands that asked or wanted Nicky to permanently join them as a full-time member were The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Jeff Beck and Led Zeppelin (as Jimmy Page was forming the band). Not a bad list to have said no to, especially since many still worked with him in the studio anyway...where it counts since those are the source tracks for everything later. Perhaps more importantly, key members of each of the bands he recorded with, those just listed among them, spoke well of their time with Nicky -- and like us wanted more. Maybe that's why if you look for Nicky's obituary in the New York Times, you'll find it there -- authored by Sir Ray Davies, a man not known for having the easiest of relationships with him. Read it and know how and why Ray respected Nicky. As there's no question that Nicky did live so far out on the edge all those decades -- musically, chemically, medically, and personally, when I think back on what my Mom said of him over the years, and from my own few brief meetings with him in the late 60's and '70's, he was so full of patience, curiosity, and generosity. And so quiet, even while he stroked the keys of his sister's grand piano as we'd visit in the living room, he'd do so in the background of quiet conversation between his sister and my mother. He'd be part of the adult discussion they had also, of course, but much of the time sitting on the bench lightly dusting the tops of the keys with his extraordinarily long and thin fingers, in one melody or another we'd never heard before. He seemed to be a boundless fount of new sounds. So, yes, in many ways Nicky's life did end tragically -- not because of his drinking and drug use but because of the pain he had to endure for most of his short 50-year lifespan, and the music he left behind, unplayed, as a result. This note went on far longer than I'd expected, and than it probably should have. Bottom line is we all loved Nicky.
@Numb217
5 ай бұрын
Thank you. ☮️
@Teleman73
Жыл бұрын
He had such a recognizable piano style, you know when you hear Nicky Hopkins.
@ivanfortuny2244
Жыл бұрын
Nicky Hopkins work with the Stones was Great the Album Exile on Main Street is a Masterpiece of classic Rock.
@David22232
3 ай бұрын
Big artist ❤
@sapporowill
Жыл бұрын
Quicksilver Messenger Service!
@KittyCarlile-490
Жыл бұрын
That solo part on Have Another Hit adds alot to the song
@kevinjoseph517
6 ай бұрын
scientology used him in their ads..
@regaltip8A
Жыл бұрын
Own a good book by Julian Dawson aboud Nicky Hopkins. Brilliant player but boy did he blow a lot of money on drugs. According to the book in his career he blew 1 million dollars on drugs.
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