The Animals

Fans lost temper but later marched to apologize after financial dispute with promoter.

These entertainers found some serious talent.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer played on their biggest hit 'House of the Rising Sun.'

The guitarist powered "House of the Rising Sun" and many other hits.

Animals singer responds to President using “tale of sin and misery set in a brothel.”

It's since been hailed as a folk-rock breakthrough, the song that convinced Bob Dylan to go electric.

Danny McCulloch, who played bass for the Animals during their late '60s psychedelic period, has died of heart failure.

As Eric Burden puts it, fly "trans-love" airlines into San Francisco to better understand this song.  It will be worth it.  It's the American dream, includes Indians too.  Wow!  That late 60's verbiage sounds hippy dippy now but was very serious back then, even coming from a British blues-rock act like The Animals, who seemed American once they adopted the left coast as home... Read Mor

One week wasn't enough!  Don't put away the patchouli incense just yet ... more psychedelic nuggets on this week's Vault including a great track from The Animals today.  "When I Was Young" was non-LP track released as a single in the spring of 1967, when the band's music began to reflect their love for the American west coast, taking full advantage of the impending "summer of love&

British pub owners in the 60's would complain about this bands rowdy stage act - one in particular said, "They act like a bunch of animals!"  Well, the name stuck, even if the rowdy behavior didn't ... they became peace loving hippies later...