Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donnegan – the King of Skiffle
Anthony James Donegan was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 29 April 1931, the son of a violinist who had played with the Scottish National Orchestra. When still an infant, Lonnie’s family moved to London, as a teenager he was playing guitar around London and visiting small jazz clubs. In 1952 he formed his first group, the Tony Donegan Jazzband, on one occasion opening for the American blues musician Lonnie Johnson, from whom he took his name as a tribute. Lonnie Donegan was the first person to become famous for playing skiffle in the United Kingdom, using a washboard, a tea-chest bass and a cheap Spanish guitar. He fell out of favour with the public during the 1960s and 1970s and he began playing on the American cabaret circuit. He experienced somewhat of a renaissance in 2000 after featuring on Van Morrison’s album The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast 1998. He played the Glastonbury festival later that same year and was awarded an MBE. His influence on a generation of musicians is immense and includes John Lennon and Pete Townshend. He was married three times, he had two daughters by his first wife Maureen Tyler (divorced 1962), a son and daughter by his second wife, Jill Westlake (divorced 1971) and three sons by his third wife, Sharon, whom he married in 1977. He died in 2002, half-way through a UK tour. Two of his sons Peter and Anthony have formed bands which perform their father’s material, they also both starred in a musical about his life.
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