81 years after his death, Robert Johnson gets a New York Times obituary.
Overlooked No More: Robert Johnson, Bluesman Whose Life Was a RiddleJohnson gained little notice in his life, but his songs — quoted by the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin — helped ignite rock ‘n’ roll.
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.[
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