Otis Redding

Otis Redding didn't simply "play concerts." The soul giant was a human Mount Vesuvius: He
erupted. Redding was at the height of his fame in March 1967, when he played these two
brief shows in London and Paris. (He would die in a plane crash in December that year.)
And the audience's reaction is ecstatic — it's a fair bet that few of these Europeans had
ever witnessed a spectacle quite like Redding and the all-star Stax house band,... More >