Bobby Whitlock, the musician who co-founded Derek and the Dominos with Eric Clapton, has died, according to his manager. He was 77.Whitlock died Sunday morning of cancer, manager Carol Kaye confirmed to CBS News.

How do you express in but a few words the grandness of one man who came from abject poverty in the south to heights unimagined in such a short time?” Whitlock’s wife, Coco Carmel Whitlock, said in a statement to CBS News.

Derek and the Dominos broke up in 1971 after the death of Allman in a motorcycle crash. Radle died in 1980 of a kidney infection. Gordon was committed to a mental institution after killing his mother with a hammer. He died there in 2023. With Whitlock’s passing, Eric Clapton is now the only living member of Derek and the Dominos.