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John Brumwell Mayall OBE (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024) was an English blues and rock musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers , a band that has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians of all-time.
Blues Breakers, colloquially known as The Beano Album, is the debut studio album by the English blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, originally credited to John Mayall with Eric Clapton. Produced by Mike Vernon and released in 1966 by Decca Records (UK) and London Records (US), it pioneered a guitar-dominated blues-rock sound.
The first single released by John Mayall and his band, in May 1964, was the song "Crawling Up a Hill", with "Mr. James" as the B-side. The band on the single was composed of Peter Ward, John McVie on bass, Bernie Watson on guitar, and Martin Hart on drums. [3] After the release, Watson was replaced by Roger Dean, and Hart by Hughie Flint.
[2] [6] The band's second and third live albums, The Diary of a Band, followed in January 1968 (by which time McVie had left), [8] [9] both of which reached the UK top 30 and the US top 100. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] A fourth studio album, Bare Wires , was the band's most successful to date, peaking at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart and number 59 on the US ...
"Crawling Up a Hill" is the debut single by English blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, released in 1964. It was written by the band's founder and singer-songwriter John Mayall. A live version is included on the band's 1965 live album, John Mayall Plays John Mayall.
Musician John Mayall, often referred to the “godfather of the British blues,” whose bands of the late ’60s and early ‘70s featured some of the most notable rock instrumentalists of the era ...
A Hard Road is the third album (and second studio album) recorded by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, released in 1967.It introduced Peter Green on lead guitar following the departure of Eric Clapton, and also featured John McVie on bass, Aynsley Dunbar on drums and John Almond on saxophone.
The album was the last John Mayall studio album to feature the name "Bluesbreakers". [1] The album was also Mayall's first successful U.S. album reaching #59 on the Billboard 200. [7] It was voted number 566 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). [8]