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The Animals released separate UK and US albums, a practice common to other British Invasion bands of the time such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s and suffered from poor business management.
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The Animals (also billed as Animals & Friends and Eric Burdon and the Animals) are an English rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The Animals are known for their deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon and for their gritty, bluesy sound, exemplified by their signature song and transatlantic number-one hit single "The House of the Rising Sun" as well as by hits such as "We ...
- 1963–1969, 1975–1976, 1983, 1992–present
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England
In 2007 Steve Hutchinson who still remained to be the longest serving keyboard player for The Animals toured throughout Europe with his band The UK Legends and UK Rock Legends performing some of the Animals hits in the shows as a tribute to his previous bands The Animals and Animals II. A video recorded in 2009 features excerpts from a live ...
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The Animals’ style of music is often described as “British blues” or “R&B,” blending traditional blues with a raw energy that was uniquely their own. They were known for their electrifying live shows and signature tracks such as “House of the Rising Sun,” which rocketed them to international fame.
The Animals is the American debut studio album by the British Invasion group, the Animals. Released in late summer 1964, the album introduced the States to the "drawling, dirty R&B sound (with the emphasis on the B)" [2] that typified the group. The album includes several R&B standards, written by the likes of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and John ...
- 22 January – 31 July 1964
- Mickie Most
- September 1964
May 1, 2014 · The rough-and-tumble quintet from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is largely ignored today, although it did pretty well during the British Invasion. A box of the band's four classic albums has just been ...
May 6, 2020 · The UK release was filled with fresh recordings of mainly R&B covers, while the US version featured recent hit singles, B-sides along with other recordings previously released in Britain but not in America, making this a fine compilation of the group’s early career.
