My Music Influences

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Through my many years of loving music these are some of the artists and their music that influenced my tastes in music.

Les Worrall

The Early days

Joe Brown     Billy Fury     Marty Wilde     Eddie Cochran     Jerry Lee Lewis

Ricky Nelson     Little Richard     Gene Vincent     Buddy Holly

John Leyton     Everly Brothers

Lonnie Donegan     Chris Barber & Lonnie Donegan     Ken Colyer Skiffle Band

Acker Bilk     Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen     Ken Colyer Jazzmen

The Peter Donegan Band

 

Rebellion Days

John Mayalls Bluesbreakers     Steppenwolf     Cream     Led Zeppelin     Free

Bad Company     Canned Heat

 

1960's

Pop

The Beatles     The Spencer Davis Group     ELO     David Bowie     Moody Blues     The Kinks

The Rolling Stones     The Who     Chubby Checker     Ernie K-Doe     unit 4 plus 2

The Troggs     Hollywood Argyles     Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs

Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs

Soul

Arthur Conley     Wilson Pickett     Otis Reading     Sam & Dave     Aretha Franklin

Folk

Peter Paul & Mary     Simon & Garfunkel

 

1970's

Mungo Jerry     Freda Payne     Dave Edmunds     McGuinness Flint

T-Rex     Rod Stewart     Roxy Music     Slade     The Sweet     

Ricky Nelson     Thin Lizzy

 

1980

Bryan Adams    

 

1990

Bruce Springsteen    

Bryan Adams (the first song I heard after my first daughter was born)

 

2000

Queen with Paul Rodgers