Gerry Lockran
Gerry Lockran
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Biography [ edit ]
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Origins [ edit ] Gerald Loughran, from a family of Irish emigrated to India in 1800, was born in the province of Yeotmal in the central plains of India. His father was of Irish, English and Indian while her mother was born of a Scottish father and an Indian mother 1 . After the death of his father, his family emigrated to London in 1953.
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Musical career [ edit ] The young Gerry began playing music in 1955 at the age of thirteen, after his brother David offered him a guitar to keep him away from the street 1 . He discovered the first skiffle , a kind of music folk influence jazz , country and blues very popular at the time in the UK for three years and played in a skiffle group called "The Hornets". Shortly after, he discovered the blues and black American decided to change his musical career in this direction, which will make him a representative of the British blues boom , a movement comprising such prestigious names as the Rolling Stones , The Yardbirds , John Mayall , Cream or Eric Clapton . In the late 1950s, Gerry befriends two other young British blues musicians: Cliff Aungier and Royd Rivers. In 1965, he changed his artist name Loughran in Lockran. The following year, in 1966, started his record production, which will have 13 albums, until 1981, the end of his musical career. After mostly filmed in Britain in the 1960s, Gerry Lockran moving towards the United States , the Canada and continental Europe.
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Illness and death [ edit ] At the end of 1981, during a tour in Belgium and the Netherlands , Gerry began to suffer from heart problems that cause heart attack who lost the use of his left hand, thus ending his career as a bluesman. After six years, he succumbed to another heart attack November 17, 1987, at the age of 45 years.
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Discography [ edit ]
Hold On I'm Coming (1966) Blues Vendetta (1967) The Essential Gerry Lockran (1969) Wun (1972) Blues Blast Off No More Cane Rags to Gladrags (1976) Rally Round the Flag (1976, Live in Germany) The Shattered Eye (1979) Total (1980) Across the Tracks (1981) Blues at Sunrise Cushioned for a Soft Ride Inside (1981)
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Source [ edit ]
Gerrylockran.net: Keeping Gerry Lockran's Blues Legacy Alive http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Lockran
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References [ edit ]
↑ a , b and c Gerrylockran.net: Keeping Lockran Gerry's Blues Legacy Alive [ archive ]