By Daniel de Visé
Grove Press £20
In June 1983, the prominent citizens of Indianola, Mississippi, both black and white, got together to throw a garden party for the city's most famous son.
Nobody was more surprised than the man himself. B B King (1925-2015) had grown up under the codified racism known as the Jim Crow laws, under which separation of the races was constitutional. Drafted for the Second World War in 1944, aged 18, King was
