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Bursting from Newcastle, via a move to London, onto the international music scene with "House of the Rising Sun," The Animals were one of the hardest-edged of the R&B-based British Invasion-era bands.
The original incarnation of the band began to splinter within a year of that monster hit, with organist Alan Price ejecting right in the middle of a string of pop hits alternating remakes of blues numbers and new songs by American Brill Building writers. The rest of the band would soon follow, reportedly due to a combination of management troubles and discomfort with producer Mickie Most's inarguably successful strategy for their singles releases.