{"id":2746,"date":"2021-01-30T02:53:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T02:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2021-01-30T02:54:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T02:54:24","slug":"hilton-valentine-a-founding-member-of-the-animals-death-was-revealed-by-his-wife-germaine-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/30\/hilton-valentine-a-founding-member-of-the-animals-death-was-revealed-by-his-wife-germaine-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilton Valentine a founding member of The Animals his death was revealed by his wife, Germaine Valentine."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hilton Valentine\/photo by Germaine Valentine<\/p>\n

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Hilton Valentine<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 21, 1943 \u2013 January 29, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

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HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 1\/29\/21\/—We, along with all of the music world, mourn the loss today of Hilton Valentine a founding member of\u00a0The Animals. Valentine was a pioneering guitar player influencing the sound of rock and roll for decades\u00a0to come. His death was revealed by his wife, Germaine Valentine.<\/p>\n

After taking up the guitar at the age of 13 in his native North Shields, Northumberland, he got involved in the\u00a0skiffle craze then sweeping the British Isles. He was orphaned at the age of 16 and was focused on his skiffle group,\u00a0The Heppers. They evolved into The Wildcats, a rock and roll band that built a reputation in his native in in the\u00a0north of England based on Valentine\u2019s energetic performances \u2013 he was known to roll on the ground why playing\u00a0his guitar. When speaking with Modern Guitars in 2006, Valentine recalled, “What drew me to the guitar was\u00a0seeing Lonnie Donegan doing \u201cRock Island Line\u201d on television, on a show called the The Six Five Special. I\u00a0wanted to play guitar after seeing that, and of course, after hearing Chuck Berry and seeing him do the\u00a0duck walk.”<\/p>\n

Valentine caught the attention of Chas Chandler, Alan Price and Eric Burdon who recruited him to join a new group they was forming in 1963. With the final addition of John Steel they would become The Animals.\u00a0Valentine remained with the band for the next four years and is heard on such classic recordings as \u201cThe House of the Rising Sun,\u201d \u201cBaby Let Me Take You Home,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Let Me Be Misunderstood,\u201d \u201cWe Gotta Get Out of This Place,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s My Life\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Bring Me Down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe House of The Rising Sun\u201d rose to #1 in the UK, US and Canada and is recognized in Rolling Stone’s Greatest Songs of All Time. Hilton Valentine created one of the most iconic guitar riffs in rock music history with his intro on “House Of The Rising Sun.” Upon induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, Dave Pirner described The Animals essential standing as a \u201ckey link in the evolving transition from black R&B to punk rock.\u201d Biographer John Corcoran\u2019s Rock Hall Induction essay stresses how their working-class experience was key to how their folk and blues interpretations would resonate so distinctly compared to Yardbirds, Beatles, Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n

Recently Eric Burdon, speaking to Guitar International, commented on the role Valentine played in\u00a0bringing the Animals hard-edged sound to the fore. \u201cIt really was Hilton who made the early Animals a\u00a0rock band because I don\u2019t think the element of rock was in the band until we found him. In those days,\u00a0Hilton wasn\u2019t just playing rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, he looked rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. Here was a guy with the greased mop of\u00a0hair combed back, cheap leather jacket, winkle picker shoes, black jeans and a smile on his face playing\u00a0through an echoplex, which was a secret weapon back then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilton Valentine released a solo album in 1969 entitled \u201cAll in Your Head\u201d for Capitol Records. He later\u00a0reunited with the Animals three times thereafter and recorded \u201cBefore We Were So Rudely\u00a0Interrupted\u201d with the band in 1977 and joined them again in 1983. He was inducted into the Rock and\u00a0Roll Hall of Fame with his former bandmates in 1994. In May 2001, he was inducted into Hollywood\u2019s\u00a0Rock Walk of Fame along with the other Animals and had a two-night reunion concert at the El Rey\u00a0Theatre.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Valentine who lived in Connecticut, returned to skiffle music and formed the band Skiffledog that toured in the US and UK, and released 2 albums,\u00a0It\u2019s Folk \u2018n\u2019 Skiffle, Mate!<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Skiffledog on Coburg ST<\/em>. He could also be found on stage with the great garage bands, The Woggles and The Headless Horsemen, whom he befriended. In 2011 he recorded a holiday album with Big Boy Pete called\u00a0Merry Skifflemas!<\/em>\u00a0referred to on the package as a \u201cfestive blend of traditional oldies and original newbies.\u201d He joined Eric Burdon on tour in 2007-08, with whom he remained close.<\/p>\n

We at Abkco have been privileged to serve as stewards of The Animals catalog and his passing is felt in a\u00a0truly profound way by the entire Abkco family.<\/p>\n

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