Stones saxman Bobby Keys dead at 70.

• Bobby Keys began playing for Buddy Holly while he was just 15 years old
• Met Stones while they were playing on the same bill in San Antonio, Texas
• Went to confront them over cover of Holly song, but joined group instead
• Can be heard on tracks Brown Sugar, Live With Me, and Emotional Rescue
• Was suffering from liver condition after problems with alcohol and heroin

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He met the Stones in the mid-'60s while they were on the same bill in San Antonio, Texas, and was distraught that the British rockers had recorded a cover of Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away.

'I said, "Hey, that was Buddy's song",' Keys recalled in Richards' memoir.

'Who are these pasty-faced, funny-talking, skinny-legged guys to come over here and cash in on Buddy's song?'
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