Blog: Robots and Wrestlers

The Animals - House of The Rising Sun (1964) So gifted and ahead of the times! In my humble opinion, Newcastle's Animals circa 1964 were vastly superior to their chart contemporaries, the Beatles and the Stones. The Beatles were loveable moptops then, and the Stones were still a few years away from their songwriting peak, but The Animals were raw, gritty and, in Eric Burdon, they had one of the all-time great blues/rock voices. The Animals' take on "House of the Rising Sun" sounded wholly new, if you weren't there in 1964 it's hard to [...]