The remarkable life of blues legend Victor Brox who played with Hendrix and Clapton, had a love affair with Nico and sang on Jesus Christ Superstar

Jimi Hendrix called Victor Brox his 'favourite white voice'. He was a huge influence on a young Jimmy Page.

And in a long and remarkable life and career Victor, who died on Monday aged 81, worked and played with the likes of Eric Clapton, Charles Mingus, Muddy Waters, Dr John, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, BB King, Keith Moon and Screaming Lord Sutch.

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Born in Tameside hospital on May 5, 1941 and raised in Droylsden, music was a part of his life from an early age. His mother played the piano and mandolin and sang, while his grandfather, a butcher from Ardwick, used to sing and play the bones.

Victor fell in love with the blues as a young boy, having first heard it on a late night radio show. Banned from playing the piano by his father, his first instrument was the violin and he formed his first band aged around 12 in Droylsden where they played dances at St Mary's Church Hall.

Soon he was immersed in the North West jazz scene, travelling by train to meetings of the Northern Jazz Federation where he would listen to rare imported records from the US.

After school he went to university in Wales to study philosophy and from there moved to Ibiza, then home to a bohemian jazz scene inspired by Charles Mingus.

A strikingly handsome man with, in the words of his daughter Kyla, the 'brightest blue eyes', there he met and fell in love with Nico of Velvet Underground fame, after she asked him for singing lessons. The acquaintance was renewed much later when Victor received a phone call from the singer, who spent much of the eighties living in Manchester, asking if he could score her some heroin.

Upon returning from an extended stay