Alan Price
Musician · b. 1942 · County Durham, England
Alan Price is an English keyboardist and singer best known as the original organist of the Animals, whose swirling Vox Continental organ drove the band's 1964 worldwide #1 “House of the Rising Sun.” After leaving the group he led the Alan Price Set and built a long solo and film-soundtrack career.
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- Born April 19, 1942, in Fatfield, County Durham, England.
- Original keyboardist of the Animals; his organ arrangement is central to “House of the Rising Sun” (1964).
- Left the Animals in 1965 and formed the Alan Price Set.
- Scored the film O Lucky Man! (1973), which won the 1974 BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music.
- UK hits include “Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear” (1967) and “Jarrow Song” (1974).
- Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Animals in 1994.
