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Eric Burdon

A key figure in the British Invasion, R&B scene of the 1960s, Eric Burdon was the Newcastle lad with a searing, gritty voice who fronted The Animals and scored the classic hit House Of The Rising Sun, before experimenting with Latin, jazz and African sounds with Los Angeles funk rockers War. Leaving War in 1971, he teamed up with American blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon for a show at San Quentin Prison and the soulful, underrated album Guilty! (1971), but his own project - The Eric Burdon Band - failed to take off. Although heavily steeped in the blues rock tradition, Burdon's sol...