Alan Price

Alan Price, (Fatfield, County Durham, 19 april 1942) is an English musician, composer and actor.



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[hide] *1 The Animals  ==The Animals[ Edit] == Price is a musical autodidact, mainly a pianist, and sits in his youth at school in South Tyneside and is founder of The Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo in Tyneside, that later, when Eric Burdon involved, is renamed The Animals.
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With an adaptation of the traditional folk song House of the Rising Sun getting The Animals their international status. This version will be the most recognizable of all the versions of this song have been released.

Price leaves the band in 1965 under the guise of fear of flying, but in reality are tensions within the band at the base of his departure. One of the reasons is a conflict over the royalties of the hit House of the rising sun. This traditional was public domain, but the band had made an arrangement in the absence of Price and also receivearrangers usually royalties. By an error by the record company when registering the package receives royalties for an arrangement to which he only calculated Price hardly a contribution (only the very recognizable-improvised solo organ). ==Alan Price Set[ Edit] == Price then formed the successful Alan Price Set, in which he sings and plays keyboard, Clive Burrows on baritone saxophone, Steve Gregory on tenor saxophone, John Walters on trumpet, Peter Kirtley on guitar, Rod "Boots" Slade on bass guitar and "Little" Roy Mills on drums. He scores hits with I Put a Spell on You, the song by Randy Newman Simon Smith and his amazing dancing bear, and his own compositions: The house that Jack built, followed by the jazzy "Don't Stop The Carnival.

His collaboration with Georgie Fame leads to a hit with the song Rosetta. He has a show on the BBC where he notes gives in and plays music of famous guests such as Fleetwood Mac and Jimi Hendrix. His secondalbum A Price On His Head in 1967 contains seven songs by Randy Newman the then still unknown.

The Alan Price Set falls apart in 1968. ==Then<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="470" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1973 he writes the music for Lindsay Anderson film O Lucky Man!, in which he acts in a portion of the film itself.

<p lang="en" len="615" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Price produces the autobiographical album Between Today and Yesterday in 1974 and a Jarrow Song track, brings him back on the hiltlijsten.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">He takes part in three attempts to revive The Animals again, in 1968, 1977 and 1983. In 1977 he made with the Rob Hoeke LP album Two of a Kind.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">He acted in Alfie Darling, a kind of sequel to the film Alfie, during the shooting he falls for the co-star, Jill Townsend. He has written music for the theatre and films, including The Whales of August.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Alan Price has been touring for the past 20 years by the UKregularly, or alone, or in "60 's shows" with groups like Manfred Mann, The Searchers and The Hollies.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 1994 The Animals get a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All five original members are present at the ceremony. In May 2001 The Animals leave their handprints on Hollywood's Rock Walk of Fame. There isDave Rowberry, Price ' successor at The Animals, present in place of Alan Price.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Price is a fan of the football club Sunderland AFC. ==Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==