Happy Heavenly Birthday to the iconic #BBKing on what would’ve been his 100th. 🕊️ Did you know: B.B. King, aka the King of the Blues, took our stage in 1974, but this time the audience wasn’t the usual crowd. He performed a free concert just for schoolchildren. King believed that young people needed to know the blues — to feel it, to understand it — because it’s the root of so much of our music. In many ways, that day became the symbolic beginning of what we now know as apolloedharlem. 📸: Monroe S. Frederick II 📽️: Apollo Archives