Blind rocker Healey dies aged 41
March , 2008 - 14:01 GMT

Blind Canadian rock musician Jeff Healey has died in a Toronto hospital aged 41 from a rare form of cancer, his publicist has said. Healey, famed for playing his electric guitar flat on his lap, died of retinoblastoma which claimed his sight when he was a one-year-old-child.

His 1988 album See The Light was nominated for a Grammy award and sold one million copies in the US. Healey's latest album was due to be released in Canada on Monday. Blues rock release Mess of Blues is expected to become available in the US and around Europe later this month and in April.

He was also due to appear on Later With Jools Holland and tour the UK and Germany. His publicist Richard Flohil told broadcaster CTV: "Jeff was an intriguing player to watch, because he played guitar - by any conventional standard - all wrong, with it flat across his lap." "But he was a remarkable, a virtuoso player," he added.

Colin Bray, a member of Healey's band who was at his bedside when he died, said: "I don't think any of us thought this was going to happen. "We just thought he was going to bounce back like he always does." Healey played with blues legend BB King and recorded with Mark Knopfler and the late George Harrison.

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R.I.P Jeff Thanks for everything.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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Thanks for that cli[ Augie, This is one of my favorites with Jeff and the late great SRV.

Xstream wrote:

Thanks for that cli[ Augie, This is one of my favorites with Jeff and the late great SRV.

Ya, both were taken from us far too young! At the very least, we have something that they left behind that brings joy to my heart.