Eric Victor Burdon was born on 11 May 1941 and is an English singer and songwriter.
39 Facts About Eric Burdon
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Eric Burdon is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, powerful blues-rock voice.
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Eric Burdon was born in 1941 in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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Eric Burdon was born to a working class family; his father did electrical work in some of the clubs Burdon would later play.
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Eric Burdon says he smoked his first cigarette at 10 years old and would skip school with his friends to drink Newcastle Brown Ale.
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Eric Burdon met a lot of other "young rebels" who shared his interest in jazz, folk, and movies.
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Eric Burdon started out his young adult life as one of a group of people who hung out at the local jazz club, The Downbeat.
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Burdon and fellow rocker and guitarist, American Jimi Hendrix, became very close friends in the mid sixties and remained so up until Hendrix's death in 1970; Burdon was in fact the person Hendrix's girlfriend called when she found him overdosed on drugs.
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Eric Burdon was lead vocalist of the Animals, formed during 1962 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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The original band was the Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, which formed in 1958; they became the Animals shortly after Eric Burdon joined the band.
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Eric Burdon has often attributed the disintegration of the band to conflict with Price, specifically that Price had claimed sole rights and ownership to "House of the Rising Sun".
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On 13 December 2008 Eric Burdon lost a three-year legal battle to use the name "the Animals" in the UK, with drummer John Steel owning the rights, in the UK only, as a result.
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On 9 September 2013 Eric Burdon's appeal was allowed, with him then entitled to use the band name in the UK.
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In 2016, Eric Burdon formed the current line-up of the Animals, including Johnzo West, Davey Allen, Dustin Koester, Justin Andres, Ruben Salinas, and Evan Mackey.
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In 1969, while living in San Francisco, Eric Burdon joined forces with California funk rock band War.
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The concert coincided with a major reissue campaign by Rhino Records, which released all the War albums including Eric Burdon Declares "War" and The Black-Man's Burdon.
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Eric Burdon moved to Germany in 1977 and recorded the album Survivor with a line-up including guitarist Alexis Korner and keyboardist Zoot Money; the album had a line-up of four guitarists and three keyboardists and is known for its interesting album cover, which depicts Eric Burdon screaming.
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On 28 August 1982, the "Eric Burdon Band" including Red Young performed at the Rockpalast Open Air Concert at the Lorelei, Germany.
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In 1986, Eric Burdon published his autobiography titled I Used to Be an Animal, but I'm Alright Now.
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In 1990, Eric Burdon's cover version of "Sixteen Tons" was used for the film Joe Versus the Volcano.
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Eric Burdon recorded the singles "We Gotta Get out of this Place" with Katrina and the Waves and "No Man's Land" with Tony Carey and Anne Haigis.
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Later in 1990, he had a small line-up of an Eric Burdon Band featuring Jimmy Zavala, Dave Meros, Jeff Naideau, Thom Mooney and John Sterling before he began a tour with the Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and they appeared at a concert from Ventura Beach, California, which was released as a DVD on 20 June 2008.
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When John Lee Hooker died in 2001, Eric Burdon had written the song "Can't Kill the Boogieman" the co-writers of the songs, on the album, were Tony Braunagel and Marcelo Nova.
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Eric Burdon began a short touring as the "Blues Knights".
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In 2013, Eric Burdon came out with a new album called, Til Your River Runs Dry.
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Eric Burdon released the album Lost Within the Halls of Fame, with past tracks and re-recordings of some songs from I Used to Be an Animal.
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Eric Burdon released the compilation albums Soldier of Fortune and I'm Ready which featured recordings from the 1970s and 1980s.
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On 7 June 2008, Eric Burdon performed at the memorial service of Bo Diddley in Gainesville, Florida.
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Eric Burdon recorded the single "For What It's Worth" with Carl Carlton and Max Buskohl.
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On 28 January 2013, Eric Burdon performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, backed by the Roots.
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On 29 September 2021, Eric Burdon performed on the Greek TV show Mousiko kouti hosted by Nikos Portokaloglou and Rena Morfi.
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In 2013 Eric Burdon won an appeal, making him the owner of the Animals name.
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Director Michelangelo Antonioni wanted to use him as a musician in a club scene, but Eric Burdon turned the role down because he had acted in films before in which he sang songs.
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Eric Burdon disbanded the Animals and went to California, where he met Jim Morrison of the Doors and decided he wanted to go into acting.
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Eric Burdon spent much money to make this film, produced as a film for Atlantic.
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In 1967 Eric Burdon married Angela "Angie" King, an Anglo-Indian hippie and model connected to the music scene.
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The next year she left him for Jimi Hendrix, and she and Eric Burdon divorced in 1969.
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Eric Burdon was murdered in 1992 by an estranged boyfriend.
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In 1972 Eric Burdon married Rose Marks, with whom he has a daughter, Alex.