The track was already BB’s 38th entry on the R&B chart, but marked only the 12th time he had made the pop list.
Travelling with Chris Barber’s jazz band, Muddy Waters’ first UK tour found him playing “pure” and “uninhibited” blues to devoted crowds.
This list of the best songs of the 60s celebrates wild and far-ranging sounds from all around the world.
His guitar is wonderfully evocative, but then so is his singing; Albert King had one of the finest voices among guitar-toting blues men.