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Alan Price
Alan Price (born 19 April 1942) is an English musician who first found prominence as the original keyboardist of the English rock band the Animals. He left the band in 1965 to form the Alan Price Set; his hit singles with and without the group include " Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear", " The House That Jack Built", "Rosetta" (with Georgie Fame) and "Jarrow Song". Price is also known for work in film and television, taking occasional acting roles and composing the soundtrack of Lindsay Anderson's film '' O Lucky Man!'' (1973). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as a member of the Animals. Early life and career Price was born in Fatfield, Washington, County Durham. He was educated at Jarrow Grammar School, County Durham. Music The Animals A self-taught musician, he was a founding member of the Tyneside group the Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, which was later renamed the Animals. His organ playing on songs by the Animals, such as "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House That Jack Built (Alan Price Song)
"The House That Jack Built" is a song written by Alan Price and recorded by the Alan Price Set. It was Price's first self-composed single, as well as his first self-produced recording. Released by Decca, the song reached number four on the UK Singles Chart in September 1967. It was included on the Alan Price Set's second album ''A Price on His Head'' (1967). Background and composition The song was significant in Price's artistic development; while his previous singles had been compositions by outside writers such as Randy Newman, Price wrote, arranged and produced "The House That Jack Built". Price funded the song's recording with the profits of his previous hit " Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" and published it through his own Alan Price Music Limited. Lyrically, the song concerns the bizarre hobbies of people living in one house. Having composed the melody first, Price struggled with the lyrics and resolved to make them "as ridiculous as possible", describing the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatfield
Fatfield is an area of Washington, Tyne and Wear, Washington, in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. Description Fatfield is an area of Washington, Tyne and Wear, Washington, Tyne and Wear, England. The southern part of the village by the River Wear is popular for country walks and the three public houses and working men's club on the banks of the river. The site of the original village is just to the west. Mine disaster In 1814, the Hall Pit in Fatfield exploded with the loss of 32 lives. At 12:30 on Tuesday 28 September a fall of stone from the roof drove firedamp into contact with candles used by the miners for illumination. All the men below ground were killed, as was one of the four men in the shaft at the time. Contemporary reports refer to the survivors being affected by the afterdamp. Although the colliery was claimed (by, for instance, the colliery overman) to be safe and well worked, there had been three previous explosions of fired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jet Records
Jet Records was a British record label started by Don Arden in 1974, featuring musicians such as Lynsey de Paul, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Roy Wood, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Alan Price, Adrian Gurvitz, Riot (band), Riot, Magnum (band), Magnum and Trickster. History The first release on the Jet Records label was the single "No, Honestly (song), No, Honestly" which was a UK top 10 for its singer and writer Lynsey de Paul in November 1974. It was followed by the de Paul album, ''Taste Me... Don't Waste Me''. De Paul wrote the second single on the Jet label, a song called "My One and Only (Bones song), My One and Only" recorded by the British female vocal group 'Bones'. The fourth single released on the label, "My Man and Me", was written and performed by de Paul and it was the second UK hit single released on Jet Records. De Paul released a second album entitled ''Love Bomb (Lynsey de Paul album), Love Bomb'', before leaving the label in 1976 after an acrimonious split ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Lucky Man!
''O Lucky Man!'' is a 1973 British comedy-drama fantasy film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his first film performance in Anderson's '' if....'' (1968). ''O Lucky Man!'' is the second film in the Mick Travis Trilogy, all starring McDowell, concluding with '' Britannia Hospital'' (1982). Plot The film is prefaced by a short story that begins "Once Upon a Time", a silent, black-and-white film that depicts an unnamed country filled with peasant laborers. They pick coffee beans while armed foremen push rudely between them. One worker (McDowell with black hair and a mustache) pockets a few beans for himself ("Coffee for the Breakfast Table"), but he is discovered by a foreman. He is next seen before a fat magistrate who slobbers as he removes his cigar only to say "Guilty." The foreman draws his machete and lays it across the unfortunate laborer's wrists, bound to a wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film '' if....'', which won the ''Palme d'Or'' at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and marked Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut. He is also notable, though not a professional actor, for playing a minor role in the Academy Award-winning 1981 film ''Chariots of Fire''. McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Anderson, '' Never Apologize''. Early life Lindsay Gordon Anderson was born in Bangalore, South India, where his father was stationed with the Royal Engineers, on 17 April 1923. His father Captain (later Major General) Alexander Vass Anderson was a British Army officer who had come from Scotland. His mother Estelle Bell Gasson was born in Queenstown, South Africa, the daughter of a wool merchant. Linds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English R&B and jazz musician. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still performing, often working with contemporaries such as Alan Price, Van Morrison and Bill Wyman. Fame is the only British music act to have achieved three UK No. 1 hits with his only top 10 chart entries: "Yeh, Yeh" in 1964, "Get Away (Georgie Fame song), Get Away" in 1966 and "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" in 1968. Biography Early life Powell was born at 1 Cotton Street, Leigh, Greater Manchester, Leigh, Lancashire, England. He took piano lessons from the age of seven. On leaving Leigh Central County Secondary School at 15, he worked for a brief period in a cotton weaving mill, spending his evenings playing piano for a band called the Dominoes. After taking part in a singing contest at the Butlins, Butlins Holiday Camp in Pwllheli, North Wales, he was offered a job there by the band leader, early British rock-and-roll star Rory Blackwell. At sixte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
"Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear" is a song written by Randy Newman, about a young man of modest means who entertains affluent diners with his dancing bear. The Alan Price Set released a version as a double A-side with "Tickle Me" on 24February 1967, and it reached number four on the ''Record Retailer'' chart in Britain. The success brought Newman to public attention as a songwriter; he recorded the song himself for his 1972 album '' Sail Away''. Composition Randy Newman wrote the ragtime-influenced song in 1964. He considered it significant in his development as a songwriter, telling ''Performing Songwriter'' in 1995 "I was writing a song, believe it or not, for Frank Sinatra Jr. And it was called something like 'Susie' or 'Mary' and I just all of a sudden couldn’t do it. So I ended up somewhere with "coat to wear" and "dancing bear"... ...and then I was never the same. And I never wrote particularly conventional songs after that." Sinatra Jr. never recorded the finis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoot Money
George Bruno "Zoot" Money (17 July 1942 – 8 September 2024) was an English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader. He was best known for playing the Hammond organ and for his leadership of the Big Roll Band. Inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles, Money was drawn to rock and roll music and became involved in the music scenes of Bournemouth and Soho during the 1960s. He took his stage name "Zoot" from Zoot Sims after seeing him perform in concert. Money was associated with the Animals, Eric Burdon, Peter Green, Steve Marriott, Kevin Coyne, Kevin Ayers, Humble Pie, Steve Ellis, Alexis Korner, Snowy White, Mick Taylor, Spencer Davis, Vivian Stanshall, Geno Washington, Brian Friel, Hard Travelers, Widowmaker, Georgie Fame and Alan Price. He also became a bit part and character actor in films and TV. and was Musical Director for the 1987 BBC Scotland drama series '' Tutti Frutti''. Early life George Bruno Money was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire in 1942, the you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Tench
Robert Tench (21 September 1944 – 19 February 2024) was a British singer, guitarist, sideman, songwriter and arranger. Tench was best known for his work with Freddie King and Van Morrison, as well as being a member of The Jeff Beck Group, Humble Pie and Streetwalkers At the start of his career he performed and recorded with The Gass and also appeared with Gonzalez, before joining the Jeff Beck Group. He recorded with Ginger Baker before touring with Beck, Bogert & Appice as vocalist and recording sessions with Linda Lewis. Associations with Wailer Junior Marvin and blues guitarist Freddie King followed. He signed to A&M Records and formed Hummingbird, later joining Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney in Streetwalkers. During this period he had brief associations with Boxer and Widowmaker, recording album tracks with each before working with Van Morrison. When his commitments with Morrison came to an end he moved on to work and record with Eric Burdon also Axis Point, bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer and songwriter. He was previously the lead vocalist of the rhythm and blues, R&B and Rock music, rock band The Animals and the funk band War (band), War. He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, powerful blues-rock voice. Burdon is also known for his intense stage performances. In 2008, he was ranked 57th in ''Rolling Stone'''s list of "The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time". Early life Eric Burdon was born in 1941 in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His father, Matt, was originally from Tyneside. His mother, Rene, was originally from Ireland and had moved to Scotland before settling in Newcastle in the 1930s. He had a younger sister, Irene. Burdon's middle name, Victor, resulted from a reward of £25 offered by the List of mayors of Newcastle upon Tyne, Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne to mothers who gave their newly born children suitably patriotic names. Burdon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Animals
The Animals, currently billed as Eric Burdon & the Animals (featuring original frontman Eric Burdon) and also as Animals & Friends (featuring original drummer John Steel (drummer), John Steel), are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1962. The Animals' original lineup consisted of frontman Eric Burdon, guitarist Hilton Valentine, bass guitarist Chas Chandler, keyboardist Alan Price, and drummer John Steel. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound, they balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm-and-blues-oriented album material, and were part of the British Invasion of the US. The Animals rose to prominence with their signature song and transatlantic number-one hit single "The House of the Rising Sun#The Animals' version, The House of the Rising Sun", and continued this success with hits such as "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "It's My Life (The Animals song), It's My Life", "Don't Bring Me Down (The Animals song), Don't Bring Me Down", " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mooncrest Records
Mooncrest Records is a British record label that was founded in 1970, originally as a management company run by Tony Stratton-Smith of Charisma Records, and it started to release singles in 1973. The first single released on the label (and given the catalogue number MOON 1), " Broken Down Angel" by Nazareth, reached the top 10 of the UK singles charts in May 1973. The label's biggest charting success was The Hotshots' version of " Snoopy vs the Red Baron", which reached no. 4 two months later. The label was sold to Trojan Records in 1975, and via Trojan to the Sanctuary Group in 2001, and has had an intermittent history since the seventies. The label re-issued some earlier albums (such as Shirley Collins' ('' No Roses'') (1971), and Iain Matthews' ('' Journeys from Gospel Oak'') (1972)), and then issued new albums by Nazareth (1973–75), Shakin' Stevens ('' Jungle Rock'') (1976) and Alan Hull ('' Back to Basics'') (1994). More recently they have handled Fairport Conventio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
