found: Leon Russell. [Phonodisc] 1971.
found: Rolling stone encyc. of rock & roll, 1983(Russell, Leon; b. Hank Wilson, April 2, 1941, Lawton, Okla.)
found: AMG, Jan. 3, 2005(Leon Russell; b. Claude Russell Bridges, April 2, 1941, Lawton, Okla.)
found: Biog. resource center (Contemp. musicians), Jan. 3, 2005(Leon Russell; also known as Hank Wilson, Claude Russell Bridges; b. April 2, 1941, Lawton, Okla.)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 15, 2016(in obituary published Nov. 13: Leon Russell; b. Claude Russell Bridges, Apr. 2, 1942, Lawton, Okla.; d. Sunday [Nov. 13, 2016], Nashville, aged 74; longhaired, scratchy-voiced pianist, guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader who moved from playing countless recording sessions to making hits on his own; took the name Leon from a friend who had lent him an ID so he could play California club dates while underage; recorded his first album of country songs under the pseudonym Hank Wilson)