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Eric Clapton
The Eagles
The Electric Prunes
Elvis Costello
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April is definitely not the cruellest month for Rock birthdays, but for those who like things tied together, two guitarists are connected by one man and one of those two is connected to one of the obituaries.  Answers at the end… **

Leon Russell – 68 on 2^nd April 2010

How many people can claim to have played with Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Joe Cocker as well as arranging River Deep and Mountain High for Ike and Tina Turner?  Only one – the great Leon Russell.
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Two thirds of one of the great Prog Rock bands were born in November and two fifths of one of the world’s greatest Folk Rock bands, but we start with the man without whom there might not have been the great 1960s UK R&B revival – the legendary John Mayall.

JOHN MAYALL – 76 years old on 29th November
The line of bands from the great Delta Bluesmen to the likes of Peter Green, Mick Taylor and Eric Clapton is remarkably short – Alexis Korner… John Mayall… Originally based in Manchester it was Alexis Korner, the godfather of UK Blues who told Mayall he had to get to London and in 1963 he did just this and The Bluesbreakers concept was born offering a proving ground for the extraordinary outburst of talent that was London in the 60s.

Some people say that Mayall, Green, McVie, Fleetwood was the best Bluesbreakers lineup, but the never bettered, Mike Vernon produced, Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton is the one for me every time.

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