In this file photo dated March 13, 2001, clarinettist and vocalist Acker Bilk holds his MBE awarded to him for services to the music industry, who has died Sunday Nov. 2, 2014, aged 85. The legendary ...

Jagger inducted The Beatles into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. During his speech, he said British pop music wasn’t always good. “When I got here tonight, I saw George [Harrison] and he said, ‘You aren ...

"[Acker had] been ill for some time. He was my great friend and his music was legendary," Sutton said. The Somerset-born musician emerged as a major figure in the traditional jazz revival in the 1950s ...

England's Acker Bilk's big hit of 1961, the sugary, vibrato packed "Stranger on the Shore" masked the fact that Bilk had been (and continues to be ) a fine New Orleans jazz performer. Bilk was a ...

Pamela Sutton, Bilk’s manager, said he died on Sunday at a hospital in Bath, south-western England. The cause of death was not announced. Born Bernard Stanley Bilk in 1929 in the south-western English ...