RIP Hilton Valentine of the Animals

He has left us.

RIP.

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Good band. RIP.

When I first started working I worked with a chap who, every time the Animal's song the house of the rising sun came on the radio, would eff and jeff and turn it off. I asked him why and it turned out he had gone on holiday to a Butlins/ Pontins camp with the wife and kids years before and a group of lads were in the chalet next door who was there to take part in a talent contest at the end of the week. They practiced all week by playing the song!