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The Animals

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rockRhythm and blues

The Animals is a Psychedelic rock and Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of What'd I Say, Allen Klein, Fred Neil, Dave Van Ronk and Bert Berns. Those roots explain a lot about how The Animals arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Eric Burdon & The Animals, The Yardbirds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cream and Manfred Mann, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Deep Purple, Herman's Hermits, Azúcar Moreno, John Mellencamp and Lucio Battisti, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 74 connections around The Animals, reaching back through What'd I Say and forward to Deep Purple. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.