PHOTOS: SRV in life Stevie Ray Vaughan plays guitar as he performs onstage at the Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, Wisconsin, August 26, 1990. It would be his last public performance.

CONCORD, UNITED STATES - AUGUST 3: Stevie Ray Vaughan performing at the Concord Pavilion in Concord, CA on August 3, 1986. He plays a Fender Stratocaster guitar. (Photo by Clayton Call/Redferns) ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Stevie Ray Vaughan was among the most successful and revered blues guitarists in history when he died in a helicopter crash on his way to Chicago on August 27, 1990.

When Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash in 1990, the world lost perhaps its greatest living guitarist and an inspiration to other recovering addicts. By Steve Knopper On Aug. 27, 1990 ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan performs at his last show in Austin, TX May 4, 1990 (Photo by Tracey Anne Hart, courtesy of Texas Flood: The Inside Story Of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort) ...

Days later was the memorial service and funeral at Laurel Land -- a wrenching, sweltering, 1,500-strong affair during which Nile Rodgers spoke and Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Wonder ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan would have turned 56 this October. Their last conversation (after that final gig with Eric Clapton and Robert Cray at Alpine Valley in East Roy, Wis.) was a trifle.

Read that original story here. Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was already a legend in music circles when we met for a wide-ranging interview in the spring of 1990.

Local artist Steve Hunter’s latest mural is a kaleidoscope of colors depicting the legendary musician Stevie Ray Vaughan. Even in the abstract block colors, viewers can recognize Vaughan’s ...