John mayall height
- •
John Mayall
English blues musician (1933–2024)
For the 19th century English photographer, see John Jabez Edwin Mayall.
Not to be confused with John Mayer.
Musical artist
John Brumwell MayallOBE (29 November 1933 – 22 July 2024) was an English blues and rock musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians of all-time. A singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and keyboardist, he had a career that spanned nearly seven decades, remaining an active musician until his death aged 90. Mayall has often been referred to as the "godfather of the British blues", and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the musical influence category in 2024.
Early life and education
Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, on 29 November 1933,[1][2] John Brumwell Mayall[3] grew up in Cheadle Hulme. He was the son of Murray Mayall, a guitarist who played in local pubs.[4]
From an early age he was drawn
- •
John Mayall
A spectacular harmonica-player and a terrific conductor of ensembles, John Mayall was for several years the main reference point for the British blues scene. His band, the Bluesbreakers, played the role of a transmission belt between the blues revival of the 1950s and the blues-rock of the 1960s, raising talents that would make the history of rock music.
One of the events that changed the British music scene in a dramatic way in 1966 was the release of the album Bluesbreakers (1966), featuring the former Yardbirds guitarist Eric Clapton, that defined a genre of rhythm'n'blues played by white European musicians, the epitome of "blues-rock", which soon became one of the strongest undercurrents of British rock music. It also laid the foundations for progressive-rock: Hard Road (Decca, 1967), featuring new guitarist Peter Green, the lush jazz arrangements of the Bare Wires Suite (1968), off the album Bare Wires (1968) that was almost entirely composed by Mayall himself, the sophisticated lounge-music of the concept-album Blues From Laurel Cany John Mayall is the godfather of British blues. As a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader, Mayall was a pioneer of blues in England during the 1960s. Celebrated for the many iconic musicians he recruited for his band the Bluesbreakers – including guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor; bassists Jack Bruce and John McVie; and drummers Mick Fleetwood and Aynsley Dunbar – Mayall displayed a talent for mentoring gifted young musicians and bringing out the best in them. With a rugged individuality and distinctive voice and style, Mayall has continually experimented with and stretched the blues, exerting a major influence on rock music. Born in Cheshire, England, Mayall developed an early love for American jazz and blues, teaching himself to play the piano, guitar, and harmonica. In the early 1960s, Mayall’s friend Alexis Korner convinced him to move to London, where he began putting together musicians to form the Bluesbreakers. When Clapton left the Yardbirds in 1965, Mayall quickly hired him, and the excitement and virtuosity o
•
JOHN MAYALL
Copyright ©tubglen.pages.dev 2025