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Sometime following this, his manager suggested a name change for him from John Cann to John Du Cann. As a result of being signed to the same management company, 1977 saw the pairing of Du Cann with Francis Rossi of the British rock band Status Quo.
Eventually with some medical treatment the condition slowly improved to where John could actually cope but by the mid eighties he was struggling with it and eventually retired. Today John has great problems with his back, although he does make light of it. Anyway, thought I'd like to share that with you, give you another perspective to John's ...
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John will, of course, always best be remembered for his tenure with Atomic Rooster and their timeless classics "Tomorrow Night" and "Devils Answer" and where he also had to contend with the unpredictable Vincent Crane (something which led to the dissolution of the classic line-up of Du Cann, Crane and drummer Paul Hammond).
In 1977 he recorded a solo album (The World's Not Big Enough) with members of Status Quo and Gillan, before learning his record company was not going to release it. In 1979, having changed his name to John Du Cann, he had a minor hit with his rendition of "Don't Be a Dummy", used in a Lee Cooper jeans ad.
Du Cann's style on his Fender Telecaster was compared to Ritchie Blackmore's. The organist Vincent Crane had become disillusioned with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and he had formed a heavy ...
Sometime following this, his manager suggested a name change for him from John Cann to John Du Cann. [3] As a result of being signed to the same management company, 1977 saw the pairing of Du Cann with Francis Rossi of the British rock band Status Quo .
Du Cann subsequently worked as a songwriter, and replaced Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy. Then his manager changed his name from John Cann to John Du Cann.
