Date of Birth : Apr 19th 1941
British musician, most notably as the original keyboardist for the English band The Animals. He is now an occasional solo performer.
Price left The Animals in May 1965 and formed The Alan Price Set, which featured Price on keyboards and vocals, Clive Burrows baritone saxophone, Steve Gregory tenor saxophone, John Walters trumpet, Peter Kirtley guitar, Rod “Boots” Slade on bass guitar and “Little” Roy Mills drums. In the same year, he appeared in the film Dont Look Back, which followed Bob Dylan on tour. During 1966 he enjoyed singles success with “I Put A Spell On You”, the Randy Newman song “Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear”, and the original “The House That Jack Built”, following it up in 1968 with the jazzy “Don’t Stop The Carnival”. A partnership with Georgie Fame resulted in “Rosetta”, which became a top 20 single in 1971. Two albums followed, Fame and Price and Price and Fame Together. Price and Fame secured a regular slot in one series of The Two Ronnies on BBC television. He then went on to host shows such as the musical Price To Play in the late ’60s, which featured Price explaining and performing the music of some famous guests such as Fleetwood Mac and Jimi Hendrix. His second album, A Price On His Head (1967) features seven songs by Randy Newman, who was virtually unknown at that time. Price produced the autobiographical album Between Today and Yesterday (1974) and the track “Jarrow Song” returned him to the singles chart. In 1973 he wrote the music for the Lindsay Anderson film O Lucky Man!, which he performs on screen in the film and appears as himself in one part of the storyline. He acted in Alfie Darling, a less than stellar sequel to the film Alfie, during the course of which he became romantically involved with his co-star, Jill Townsend. He has written music for stage plays and films, including The Whales of August. In 1992 Lindsay Anderson included a touching episode in his autobiographical BBC film Is That All There Is?, with a boat trip down the River Thames to scatter Jill Bennett’s funeral ashes on the waters while Price accompanied himself and sang the song “Is That All There Is?”. He also composed and sung the theme tune to the 1982 film adaptation of The Plague Dogs, “Time and Tide”.
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