Musician Spencer Davis, who founded the beat band The Spencer Davis Group, has died. As a member of the chart-topping group, Davis enjoyed a string of hits in the 1960s including Keep on Running, Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm A Man.
Gimme Some Lovin' famously featured on the soundtracks of hit movies The Blues Brothers and Notting Hill and The Spencer Davis Band's music continues to prove popular and is included on newly released film I Am Woman, about the late Helen Reddy.
The band's drummer Pete York today called best friend Jim Simpson - first manager of Black Sabbath and founding director of the ongoing Birmingham International Jazz Festival - that Spencer had died from a heart-attack in California on Monday, October 19, reports Birmingham
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