Alan Price

   
Artist: Alan Price

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Geordie Boy The Anthology - Disc 2

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 21


   
 Geordie Boy The Anthology - Disc 1

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 25


   
 Rising Sun

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 13


   
 England My England

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


   
 Metropolitan Man

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 11


   
 O Lucky Man

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 10

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As the organist in the first-class honours degree Animals lineup, Alan Price was peradventure the most authoritative subservient contributor to their other go of hits. He left wing the chemical group in 1965 afterwards only a year or so of international succeeder (he canful be seen talk around his expiration with Bob Dylan in the rockumentary Don't Look Back) to work on a solo career. Leading the Alan Price Set, he had a Top Ten British stumble in 1966 with a reworking of "I Put a Spell on You," complete with Animals-ish organ breaks and bluesy vocals. His subsequent run for of British hits between 1966 and 1968 -- "Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo," "Simon Smith and His Dancing Bear," "The House That Jack Built," and "Don't Stop the Carnival" -- were in a much lighter mineral vein, draught from British music radclyffe Hall influences. "Simon Smith and His Dancing Bear," from 1967, was one of the start Randy Newman songs to derive international exposure, though Price's translation -- care all his British hits -- went near unnoticed in the U.S. A versatile entertainer, Price collaborated with Georgie Fame, hosted TV shows, and scored plays in the years undermentioned the breakup of the Alan Price Set in 1968. He composed the score to Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man!, where his spare and droll songs served well-nigh as a Greek chorus to the surrealistic, capricious film (Price himself has a small role in the moving picture). His 1974 concept record album, Betwixt Today and Yesterday, was his most critically acclaimed go.





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