Burdon left also this band and run back to stardome in the mid-70s with The Eric Burdon Band producing heavy rocking songs. He went on forming short-living groups such as Eric Burdon's Fire Dept. in 1980, another Eric Burdon Band in 1981, especially for a motion picture-starring role in Comeback for which he made the soundtrack and a reunion band with The Animals in 1983 to get back to the Mainstream Charts. The 1980s saw Burdon in genres such as heavy metal, new wave, pop, reggae, disco, blues, rock and roll, punk, funk and rap. He also published his album "I Used To Be An Animal" as well as his autobiography with the same title. He went on touring in stadiums as well as in small clubs around the world.
In 1990 he formed the Eric Burdon & Robby Krieger Band who toured mainly in America. They recorded some demo tapes, but never released them. In 1991 he toured the world again as Eric Burdon & Brian Auger Band. They released a double-live album, "Access All Areas" in 1993, showing versions of Burdon's old hits in new musical outfits, once again as a blues, metal, reggae and fusion performer.
In 1994 they got disbanded, Burdon got introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where he performed 1995 with Bon Jovi and created a new group of high-professional musicians, Eric Burdon's i Band. They disbanded in 1998 and he formed Eric Burdon & The New Animals. In 2003 they changed their name in Eric Burdon & The Animals, after some band changes. In 2004 the long awaited studio-album "My Secret Life" was released and brought him back into the mainstream charts and in late 2005 the live album "Athens Traffic Live" was released.
Burdon formed a new band-line-up, also touring as Eric Burdon & The Animals. In January 2006 he released "Soul of a Man", with good critics worldwide. He wanted to create an album who is dedicated to the blues and rnb. Since then he toured the world without a break, always looking for new material, performing with other famous musicians.
Recently, Burdon wrote a screenplay called "Twisted Oliver" and is working on a new studio album. He turned down tours with War and Linkin Park in the last year, but it seems that the new year is bringing many surprises.
Many of his bands also used elements of speed metal, thrash metal, grindcore and death metal.
He's definitely one of the most important people in music history, while recording the first #1 hit with a length more than four minutes, "House of the Rising Sun", the most popular anti-vietnam song "We Gotta Get out of this Place", the first song recorded in stereo, "Sky Pilot" and the first latin rap in pop music, "Spill the Wine". His self-written rock song "Year of the Guru" (1968) proves that he created the first rap rock-song. His political environment can be seen in his multi-racial project with the band War from late 1969 to early 1971. In 2008 he reunited with the band at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Without his experimental vocals, hip hop, rap, heavy metal, rock, pop and rnb would have a completely different face.
His singing style and music also influenced artists such as Joe Cocker, The Doors, Deep Purple, The Brute Chorus, Ted Nugent, Janis Joplin, The Sonics, Steppenwolf, Chester Bennington, Bruce Springsteen, The Black Crowes, Tom Petty, The White Stripes, Ryan Adams, John Mellencamp, The Compulsive Gamblers, The Vines, Julian Thome, The Hives, MC5 and many more.
In November 2008 the magazine Rolling Stone ranked him #57 on their list of the Best Singers of all Times.
Formations:
The Animals & Sonny Boy Williamson (December 30, 1963)
The Animals (1964 - September 1966, 1976, 1983/84)
Eric Burdon & The Animals (1967 - 1968)
Eric Burdon & War (1969 - 1971)
Eric Burdon & Jimmy Witherspoon (1971)
The Eric Burdon Band (1973 - 1975)
Eric Burdon's Fire Department (1980)
Eric Burdon, Robbie Krieger & Friends (1990)
Eric Burdon & Brian Auger Band (1991 - 1993)
Eric Burdon's I Band (1995 - 1998)
Eric Burdon & The New Animals (1999 - 2002)
Eric Burdon (1976 - ...)
I Don't Mind
Eric Burdon Lyrics
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In Newcastle upon a Tyne the other day
He said to me, "Eric, I heard you've been havin'
Some trouble down in the smoke with the girls"
He said, "You wanna catch that flyin' Scotsman
Back up here to Newcastle
'Cause we've got enough females to go around up here
"And because people around here
Don't go away stealin' each others loved ones
Away from one another
Like they do down there in the smoke"
He also said in the letter that, ah
Things don't happen like that here on Tyne
And I believed every word he said now
Things don't happen like that here on Tyne
One more thing he told me now
Things don't happen like that here on Tyne
He said to me, babe
Things don't happen like that here on Tyne
He said, alright, alright
So I'm sayin' to you who are listenin'
If you've been unlucky in love
And you've lost somebody love
And you hear a voice that comes to you
In the middle of the night and says
It says I want you to get on up
Listen to me, I want you to get on up
And find yourself another one
If you're havin' breakfast one morning
And out from behind the teapot a little voice says
Listen, hey, I want you to get on up now
If you're out in the mornin' on your job
And a voice come to you on your job and says
Get up, get up
And you know it's not the foreman
It's a little voice that says
You wanna get up and walk [unverified], women
Go on and find yourself somebody
That's what you'd better do
Because I'll tell you one thing
There's one thing I found out
One thing I found out
Took me a long time to find it out
Yeah, it took me a long time to find out
But I think I got it now, oh, yeah
One monkey don't stop no show
Yes, it's true, baby
One monkey don't stop no show
Don't let one monkey stop up your show
One monkey don't stop no show
One monkey don't stop no show
The song "I Don't" by Eric Burdon tells the story of a friend from Newcastle who wrote to him, advising him to come back home because things are different there when it comes to relationships. The friend believes that there are enough females in Newcastle for Eric to find someone new rather than being troubled by girls in London. He also mentions that people in Newcastle don't take each other's loved ones like they do in London. The song also includes advice about not letting lost love hold one back and finding someone new because "one monkey don't stop no show."
Line by Line Meaning
You know I got a letter from a friend of mine
I received a letter from a friend in Newcastle upon Tyne
He said to me, 'Eric, I heard you've been havin'
He told me that he heard I've been having some trouble with women
Some trouble down in the smoke with the girls
Some issues with women in London
He said, 'You wanna catch that flyin' Scotsman
He suggested I come up to Newcastle and find some women there
And I can figure you can find yourself a little somethin'
He believes there's enough women in Newcastle for me to find someone for myself
Don't go away stealin' each others loved ones
People in Newcastle do not steal each other's partners
He also said in the letter that, ah
He mentioned in the letter
Things don't happen like that here on Tyne
It's not common in Newcastle to have issues with women like in London
He said to me, babe
He addressed me affectionately
So I'm sayin' to you who are listenin'
I'm telling you who are listening
If you've been unlucky in love
If you've had bad luck in relationships
In the middle of the night and says
If you hear a voice in the middle of the night saying
Listen to me, I want you to get on up
Listen to me, I want you to get up and start again
If you're havin' breakfast one morning
If you're having breakfast one morning
Out from behind the teapot a little voice says
A little voice comes from behind the teapot and says
If you're out in the mornin' on your job
If you're working early in the morning
And a voice come to you on your job and says
If a voice comes to you while you're working and says
You wanna get up and walk [unverified], women
You should get up and go find women
Because I'll tell you one thing
Because let me tell you
One monkey don't stop no show
One bad thing doesn't have to ruin everything
Took me a long time to find it out
It took a while for me to realize this
But I think I got it now, oh, yeah
But I think I understand it now
Don't let one monkey stop up your show
Don't let one bad thing ruin everything for you
One monkey don't stop no show
One bad thing doesn't have to ruin everything
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: GENERAL N. JOHNSON, GREGORY S. PERRY
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