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Maintaining his flat in London meant that he was also something of a go-between for like-minded groups in California and at home. “I remember gathering round a record player at the Grateful Dead’s house in the Haight. I put The Beatles’ I Am The Walrus on and they went: ‘That’s the most psychedelic thing we’ve ever heard!’ They were raving about it. When I Was Young (with interview) (Live: Hollywood, CA US TV 24th June 1967) (Live: Hollywood, CA US TV 24th June 1967) In 1970, Burdon and War had an immediate US hit with their debut single Spill The Wine, which slipped an insidious groove under Burdon’s partly spoken narrative. Meanwhile, debut album Eric Burdon Declares War also made the Top 20. Yet his world was about to come crashing down.

Burdon, Eric (with J. Marshall Craig). Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: A Memoir. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001. ISBN 1-56025-330-4. Pingitore, Silvia (27 April 2021). "The House of the Rising Sun & the 1960s British Invasion: interview with The Animals' John Steel". the-shortlisted.co.uk.

San Franciscan Nights (Live: Hollywood, CA US TV 24th June 1967) (Live: Hollywood, CA US TV 24th June 1967) Burdon may have thrown himself into the hedonistic pleasure palace of the hippie revolution, with its ready promise of hallucinogens and free love, but it wasn’t an age he took lightly. One of the key songs on his last album, 2013's Til Your River Runs Dry– easily his best for some years – was 27 Forever. Like much of the album, it transposed Burdon's preoccupations on to a map of his younger self. It was both a requiem for those whose lives were snuffed out prematurely and his own narrow escape from the same fate.

Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) (Live: Woburn Abbey Festival 27th Aug 1967) (Live: Woburn Abbey Festival 27th Aug 1967) American blues was Burdon’s first love. As an art student in Newcastle in the late 50s and early 60s, he soaked it all up. One of the most important bands originating from England’s R&B scene during the early ’60s, the Animals were second only to the Rolling Stones in influence among R&B-based bands in the first wave of the British Invasion. The Animals had their origins in a Newcastle-based group called the Kansas City Five, whose membership included pianist Alan Price, drummer John Steel, and vocalist Eric Burdon. Price exited to join the Kontours in 1962, while Burdon went off to London. The Kontours, whose membership included Bryan “Chas” Chandler, eventually were transmuted into the Alan Price R&B Combo, with John Steel joining on drums. Burdon’s return to Newcastle in early 1963 heralded his return to the lineup. The final member of the combo, guitarist Hilton Valentine, joined just in time for the recording of a self-produced EP under the band’s new name, the Animals. That record alerted Graham Bond to the Animals; he was likely responsible for pointing impresario Giorgio Gomelsky to the group. ― Allmusic Burdon contented himself by hanging out with famous non-musician buddies like neighbour Steve McQueen. The two bonded over a mutual love of motorbikes. “I went riding one morning and saw this guy go past me doing 80 miles per hour across sand dunes. I was like, who was that? And it was Steve. I tore after him and caught him up. He actually had a berm of sand, naturally formed by the moving desert, that was the same dimensions as the jump he was supposed to have done in The Great Escape.”The Animals formed in Newcastle upon Tyne during 1962 and 1963 when Burdon joined the Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo. The original lineup was Burdon (vocals), Price (organ and keyboards), Hilton Valentine (guitar), John Steel (drums) and Bryan "Chas" Chandler (bass). [4] [5] In the 1990s, Danny McCulloch, from the later-1960s Animals, released several albums as the Animals. [27] The albums contained covers of some original Animals songs, as well as new ones written by McCulloch. Next Next post: Steve Miller Band – Ultimate Hits (2017) [Official Digital Release] SEARCH BY WORDS Search for: Search QUALITY Ralph McLean, "Stories Behind the Song: 'House of the Rising Sun'", BBC, undated. Retrieved 4 May 2007. When these great bluesmen passed through, the local promoters would ask Burdon and his mates – the music-loving “lags of Newcastle University”– to look after them.