Mark Lindsay
Musician · b. 1942 · Eugene, Oregon
Best known for
Songwriter
Mark Lindsay is the Oregon-born lead singer of the 1960s rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders, the saxophonist-songwriter behind hits including “Just Like Me,” “Hungry,” and “Good Thing,” and the lead voice on the Raiders’ 1971 No. 1 single “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian).” He went on to a long solo career and continues to tour and record.
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- Born March 9, 1942, in Eugene, Oregon, the second of eight children; raised in Idaho.
- Began performing at fifteen with local Idaho bands.
- Met organist Paul Revere Dick at the Boise-area drive-in restaurant Revere ran in 1958; the two formed what would become Paul Revere & the Raiders.
- Signed to Gardena Records in 1961 and to Columbia in 1963; the Raiders became one of the best-selling American rock acts of the mid-1960s.
- Took over the band’s writing and producing chores by 1968.
- Sang lead on the Raiders’ 1971 recording of John D. Loudermilk’s “Indian Reservation,” which spent one week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- Has continued to tour and record as a solo artist since the early 1970s.