John Mayall

Date of Birth: November 29, 1933

Biography:

He is a British blues and pop-rock singer, instrumentalist (particularly keyboardist and guitarist) and composer. Forerunner of the invasion of English blues along with Alexis Korner.

In 1955 he founded his first group, The Powerhouse Four, and later his most famous band: The Bluesbreakers, in which he had the collaboration of guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. His band was the alma mater of various subsequent formations. Mick Fleetwood and John McVie were part of the band and participated in the recording of A hard road, along with guitarist Peter Green, forming, after leaving the Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac.

The Bluesbreakers managed to make great records in the 1960s, like the famous Bluesbreakers album, whose cover features Eric Clapton flipping through a copy of the Beano comic.

After Clapton left to form the blues-rock trio Cream, Mayall would look for a new guitarist, Peter Green. After recording the album A hard road with Green, Green left to form Fleetwood Mac. According to Mayall himself: “One day, we had a concert and we didn’t have a guitarist, then Mick Taylor appeared.” Mayall was amazed at the young guitarist, but the concert ended and Taylor left. John looked for him everywhere, until he managed to locate Taylor and offered him the position of guitar in his band.

He and Taylor would record together the legendary Crusade, where Taylor shines with his own light, and in 1969, the psychedelic Bare Wires. Taylor would later go on to replace Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones.

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