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Johnny Winter has died in Switzerland aged 70

Blues musician and producer Johnny Winter has died at the age of 70.
Winter, who played with Jimi Hendrix and Muddy Waters, was a friend of John Lennon, who wrote Rock and Roll People in his honour. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote a song for him in 1973 called Silver Train.
Born John Dawson Winter III on February 23, 1944 in Mississippi, and raised in Beaumont, Texas, Winter began playing the clarinet aged five, and switched to the ukelele and then the guitar a few years later. He was the subject in May 2014 of a documentary film called Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty, which was made by Greg Olliver and had its premiere at the SXSW Festival.