# @apollotheater on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOrQsP1ESoG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34662808-apollotheater-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-16T20:09:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Apollo Theater (@apollotheater) — https://gondola.cc/apollotheater

## Caption

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

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