DON'T SHOOT ME...Alan Price


     Alan Price first found fame as part of the group The Animals.Their first big worldwide hit being 'House Of The Rising Sun',followed by the memorable 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood',plus many more.When Alan decided to go solo he had huge success with many hit albums and singles such as 'I Put A Spell On You' and 'Don't Stop The Carnival',to name just a few.
     Price was born in Fatfield,and,from the age of eight,taught himself piano,guitar and bass.His first group,formed at Jarrow Grammar School,was a skiffie band called The Black Diamonds.
     Playing bass guitar with The Frankie Hedley Trio,he met and sat-in on piano with The Pagans,a group that contained chanter Eric Burdon and drummer John Steel.
     As the band prepared to infiltrate the London R&B scene in 1963,the name was changed to The Animals.
     Citing fear of flying,at the height of their success,Price left the band.This was seen as tantamount to professional suicide,however,within a very short time,he had assembled The Alan Price Set.The release of their stirring version of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins song 'I Put A Spell On You' was a huge success.
     In 1970,Price teamed up with Georgie Fame and they had a hit with 'Rosetta'.
     In 1974,at a time of social turbulence,he wrote the 'Jarrow Song',having been brought up in the town famous for its worker's march of 1936.The success of the single and subsequent autobiographical album,'Between Today And Yesterday',achieved critical success and fostered a BBC TV 'Omnibus' documentary.
      Alan starred in 'Alfie Darling' in 1975,winning the Most Promising New British Actor award.He has enjoyed a very fruitful career in music,theatre and film,and continues to write stage musicals such as 'Andy Capp' and 'Who's A Lucky Boy?',as well as performing 'live' whenever time allows in his ever busy schedule.



   ALAN PRICE

    Between Today And Yesterday

   WB,1974





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