Timeline John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chillen'

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• 1912 John Lee Hooker born near Clarksdale, Mississippi Coahoma County Learns guitar from his stepfather Will Moore.
• 1943 John Lee Hooker moves to Detroit Factory work Works in the car plants and plays the bars of Hastings Street.
• 1948 John Lee Hooker releases Boogie Chillen' Number one R&B A one-chord boogie that tops the R&B charts.
• 1951 John Lee Hooker releases I'm in the Mood Number one R&B His second R&B number one.
• 1955 John Lee Hooker signs with Vee-Jay Records Chicago label A decade of recordings for Vee-Jay.
• 1960 John Lee Hooker plays the Newport Folk Festival Folk revival Repackaged as a folk-blues singer for the new audience.
• 1962 John Lee Hooker releases Boom Boom Biggest hit His best-known song, covered by the Animals.
• 1962 John Lee Hooker tours Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival British blues boom Inspires the young British blues bands.
• 1971 John Lee Hooker records Hooker 'n Heat With Canned Heat A double album with his blues-rock admirers.
• 1980 John Lee Hooker appears in The Blues Brothers Boom Boom Plays Boom Boom on Maxwell Street.
• 1989 John Lee Hooker releases The Healer Comeback A star-filled comeback with Carlos Santana and Bonnie Raitt — a Grammy at 77.
• 1991 John Lee Hooker inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Inducted as a performer.
• 2001 John Lee Hooker dies Los Altos, California Dies in his sleep, aged 88.