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Sam Moore, who sang Soul Man and different 1960s hits successful the legendary Sam & Dave duo, has died aged 89.
Moore, who influenced musicians including Michael Jackson, Al Green and Bruce Springsteen, died connected Friday successful Coral Gables, Florida, owed to complications portion recovering from surgery, his publicist Jeremy Westby said.
No further details were instantly available.
Moore was inducted with Dave Prater, who had died successful a 1988 car crash, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame successful 1992.
The duo, astatine the Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records, transformed the "call and response" of gospel euphony into a frenzied signifier amusement and recorded immoderate of psyche music's astir enduring hits, including Hold On, I'm Comin'.
Many of their records were written and produced by the squad of Isaac Hayes and David Porter and featured the grounds label's location set Booker T & the MGs.
Sam & Dave faded aft their 1960s heyday but Soul Man deed the charts again successful the precocious 1970s erstwhile the Blues Brothers, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, recorded it with galore of the aforesaid musicians.
Moore had mixed feelings astir the deed becoming associated with the Saturday Night Live stars, remembering however young radical believed it originated with the Blues Brothers.
Sam & Dave broke up successful 1970 and neither had different large hit.
Moore aboriginal said his cause wont played a portion successful the band's troubles and made grounds executives wary of giving him a caller start.
He joined his woman Joyce successful 1982, and she helped him get attraction for his addiction that helium credited with redeeming his life.
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Moore spent years suing Prater aft his erstwhile spouse hired a substitute and toured arsenic the New Sam & Dave.
He besides mislaid a suit claiming the brace of aging, estranged singers successful the 2008 movie Soul Men was excessively adjacent to the duo.
In different ineligible case, helium and different artists sued aggregate grounds companies and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists successful 1993, claiming helium had been cheated retired of status benefits.
Despite his million-selling records, helium said successful 1994 his pension amounted to conscionable 2,285 US dollars (£1,872), which helium could instrumentality arsenic a lump sum oregon successful monthly payments of 73 US dollars (£60).
"Two 1000 dollars for my lifetime?" Moore said astatine the time. "If you're making a nett disconnected of me, springiness maine immoderate too. Don't springiness maine cornbread and archer maine it's biscuits."
Moore wrote Dole Man, based connected Soul Man, for Republican Bob Dole's 1996 statesmanlike run and was 1 of the fewer entertainers who performed astatine President Donald Trump's inaugural festivities successful 2017.
Eight years earlier, helium objected to Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Barack Obama's usage of the opus Hold On, I'm Comin' during his campaign.
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