Lonnie Donegan
UK
Born: 29 April 1931
Died: 03 November 2002
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Genres: Pop/Rock, Country, Blues, Folk
Styles: Skiffle, Traditional Folk, British Folk, Celtic/British Isles, Rockabilly, Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots
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To look at Lonnie Donegan today, in pictures taken 40 years ago when he was topping the British charts and hitting the Top Ten in America, dressed in a suit, his hair cut short and strumming an acoustic guitar, he looks like a musical non-entity. But in 1954, before anyone (especially anybody in England) knew what rock & roll was, Donegan was cool, and his music was hot. He's relatively little remembered outside of England, but Donegan shares an important professional attribute with Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, an...
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