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Jan 29, 2021: Original Animals Guitarist, Hilton Valentine, Dies
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by Best Classic Bands StaffThis ad for “The House of the Rising Sun” appeared in the July 25, 1964, issue of Record World in the U.S.
Hilton Valentine, the original guitarist for the Animals, whose distinctive intro on the 1964 chart-topping single “The House of the Rising Sun” was a key part of the British Invasion, died January 29, 2021.
His death at age 77 was announced by his wife, Germaine. Neither the cause of death nor the location was revealed, though he had lived in the town of Wallingford, Conn., for several decades.
Valentine was born Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine on May 21, 1943, in what was then Northumberland, England.
As with many young men in 1950s Britain, the skiffle craze hit him hard and his mother bought him his first guitar in 1956 at the age of 13. He immediately taught himself from a book called Teach Yourself a Thousand Ch