Classically trained session pianist Nicky Hopkins brought his musical ingenuity, impeccable taste and feel to over 250 albums, including classics from the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Beatles and Joe Cocker. Equipped both technically and personally to work in any idiom – blues, rock, psychedelia, soul – he added texture and emotional depth to hundreds of songs, broadening the palette of rock & roll and influencing generations of keyboardists.