Amoeba Music

If rock and roll emerged from black spiritual gospel music and rhythm and blues, R&B gained back some of its independent spirit with the rock of The Animals, synonymous with the first British invasion and, invasions aside, one of the most influential bands ever forged as the timelessness of songs such as their “House of the Rising Sun,” “It’s My Life” and “We Gotta Get Out of this Place” and “When I was Young” makes quite clear.  

While art school grad and vocalist Eric Burdon was bumming around the London music scene in the early 1960s, reputedly rocking out with such future luminaries as Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart, Burdon’s former... Read More

Genre:

Oldies, Rock, Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Psychedelic

City Of Origin:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Formed Date:

1962