The soul legend’s career spanned seven decades.
Womack grew up the son of two musicians in Cleveland, Ohio. Sam Cooke signed Womack and his brothers, who performed as the Womack Brothers, to his SAR Records label in 1960.
The quartet eventually changed their name to the Valentinos and, in 1964, released a song called “It's All Over Now,” a version of which became a hit for the Rolling Stones in the same year. Just months after Cooke was killed in 1964, Womack married Cooke's widow Barbara Campbell.
In the late '60s and early '70s, Womack released solo R&B albums, toured with the Faces, and worked as a session musician in Memphis, playing on songs like Sly & the Family Stone's “Family Affair” and Dusty Springfield's “Son of a Preacher Man.”
In the 80s, he struggled with drug addiction and completed rehab.
Bobby Womack Dead At 70
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