A thoughtful new comment posted by “Bill” tempted me to give this one another airing – and maybe to suggest to Big Niall that a spirited attempt should now be made, if it has not been already, to get Alan along to the Stadium of Light. Salut! Sunderland will do its best to get that suggestion to the chairman’s office…Good though the Animals were as a Sixties band, I had always assumed they were a bunch of Mags.
“Oh Lord,” comes the thundering response from Alan Price at the very thought. “Please don’t let me be misunderstood.
And so
Wear Down South** found itself listening to the story of a Sunderland supporter, if no longer through and through (more of that later) then at least of impeccable origins.
It was an interview that took me to the suburban London house of the man responsible for one of the two most familiar organ solos – I’d put it alongside Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale, but please feel free to tell me I’ve got it wrong – in British pop. Meet Alan Price…