JJ Cale, the musician who wrote “Cocaine” and “After Midnight” for Eric Clapton and songs for numerous other artists, died Friday of a heart attack in La Jolla, Calif. He was 74. His agent confirmed ...

J.J. Cale, the songwriter behind the Eric Clapton classics "Cocaine" and "After Midnight," died Friday at the age of 74. Born John Weldon Cale in 1938 in Oklahoma City, Okla., the Grammy winner was an ...

Oklahoma lost a musical icon Friday night. J.J. Cale died at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, California, following a heart attack. Cale, 74, was best known for his songs "After Midnight" and "Cocaine," ...

Eric Clapton was devastated last summer when he learned that J.J. Cale — his musical idol, close friend and periodic collaborator — had died here of a heart attack at the age of 74. But the English ...

Back in the early ’70s, Eric Clapton — struggling out of drug addiction and pursuing a solo career — turned “Cocaine” and “After Midnight,” both JJ Cale songs, into radio staples that saved his ...

The musician passed away Friday of a heart attack at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. By The Associated Press If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of ...

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll. His best songs like ...

Cale wrote songs (“After Midnight,” “Cocaine”) that became hits for Clapton. Their “Road to Escondido” collaboration in 2006 netted Cale a Grammy for best contemporary blues album. Clapton released a ...

Had everything gone the way Eric Clapton hoped, JJ Cale would have joined him on his entire 2007 North American tour and for his 2006 tour of Asia and Australia — not for just for five songs at the ...

Christine Lakeland’s transition from high school to the real world was immediate. The day after her graduation ceremony in Michigan, she headed to Nashville. Three days later, she landed a job in a ...

US singer-songwriter JJ Cale has died at the age of 74. An announcement on the Grammy award-winning artist's website confirmed that he passed away in hospital on Friday (July 26) after suffering a ...