Performances by international groups Hot Chocolate, The Drifters, Eric Burdon and the Animals and national favourites Renee Geyer, Marcia Hines and John Farnham ensured its success. Jamie Nasser ...

E Street Band veteran Steve Van Zandt looks back on the British invasion and names the band that The Rolling Stones "prepared ...

In 1969, that band declared itself War, earning a hit record with Animals singer Eric Burdon called “Spill the Wine.” War’s funky latin-influenced groove ended up inspiring artists like ...

Eric Burdon & The Animals, Sly & The Family Stone, Troggs, Mothers of Invention, Traffic, Yardbirds, Procol Harum, Crazy ...

Eric Burdon was swept ashore with his ’60s band the Animals in the first wave of the British invasion. Although many of the bands in that wave had a heavy blues influence, the Animals probably had the ...

On his 1967 hit song “Monterey," Eric Burdon, of Eric Burdon and the Animals, sang that Ravi Shankar's music made him cry. This was part of a litany of observational praises of the artists who ...

1964 - Eric Burdon and The Animals headlined their first tour in England. The tour began in Manchester with opening acts Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent. 1967 - John Lennon, branching out from The Fabs, ...

Andy Summers, the guitarist and vocalist formerly in The Police, the rock band which also included lead vocalist and bassist Sting, (the stage name of Gordon Sumner) and drummer and ...

“It’s my life and I’ll do what I want,” sang Eric Burdon of The Animals to the baby boomer generation. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. As we get older, sometimes we are no longer capable of ...

which also featured Andy Summers – a guitarist of profile whose credits included spells with Eric Burdon And The Animals and Kevin Ayers. The versatile Summers sensed kindred spirits in Copeland ...