Arthur Lee, singer and guitarist of the influential 1960s band Love, has died in Memphis at the age of 61 following a battle with acute myeloid leukaemia.

A Memphis native who called himself the "first so-called black hippie", Lee formed Love in Los Angeles in 1965.

As a former musician who wandered the Sunset Strip in the mid-to-late '60s, I got chance to hear many of the great bands of the...