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Ben E. King

Ben E. King

American Musician

Born: Sep 28, 1938

Died: Apr 30, 2015

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I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes. Ben E. King

Sometimes Cheating Think Pursue Feel Like Accidental Still Whole Career

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place. Ben E. King

Travel Guess All-Around Pretty Around Yeah Been Place Fortunate

If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here. Ben E. King

Love Time Business Happy Met Extremely Entertainers Some About Greatest Still Anything Here Started Career

We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again. Ben E. King

Feeling Think Hundred Would Per Structured Allow Raw Industry Doing Were Very Just Happen Cent Again Asked Things Programmed

The industry now wants to be in charge of everything. Ben E. King

Everything Charge Industry Wants Now

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street. Ben E. King

Honesty People About Because Going Connected Street

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did. Ben E. King

Today Feeling Sorry Jet Those Kids Sunglasses Eat Never True Feel True Feeling Know Industry Caviar Did Happen Planes Things

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist. Ben E. King

When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us. Ben E. King

Think Took Hundred Signed Week Put New Name Like Piece Became Dollars Salary Contract Five Which Us

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