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Feb 23, 2021: Guitar.com: ​GUITAR LEGENDS: RORY GALLAGHER – THE SELF-STYLED ‘WORKING GUITARIST’ WHO WAS TOUCHED BY GENIUS
Lonnie Donegan made a profound impression on the young Rory Gallagher. With 31 UK Top 30 hits to his name, Donegan was Britain’s most successful and influential recording artist prior to The Beatles, and Rory later appeared on his star-studded 1978 album, Puttin’ On The Style. One of its best tracks, ‘Drop Down Baby’, is reprised on Blues.
“Rory had mega respect for Lonnie,” says Dónal, who later became firm friends with the late skiffle star.

March 2, 2019: Manchester Evening News: Viewers react as Sir Tom Jones sends his friend Lonnie Donegan's son home on The Voice
​The Battle Rounds on The Voice are always tough as the coaches pit their own acts against each other - but tonight Sir Tom Jones had an especially difficult decision to make.
The music legend chose Team Tom members Peter Donegan and Deana Walmsley to sing a duet on the Bob Dylan ballad Make You Feel My Love on the ITV singing show.

1. Jan 11, 2019: The Mirror: Lonnie Donegan's son reveals truth on The Voice 'fix' - but he's labelled 'liar'
   

​Lonnie Donegan's son has revealed the truth about his The Voice performance after 'fix' claims.
Last weekend's opening episode was rocked by the scandal after Peter Donegan's secret connections were revealed.
Sir Tom Jones was stunned when he spun round on his chair and discovered the singer was the son of his old friend, Lonnie, before performing an impromptu duet.

Sept 30, 2018: Mindfully Bertie: ​A Night for Lonnie Donegan (And Cheers Chas).
The “King of Skiffle” was Lonnie Donegan. Later considered to be the Godfather of British Rock and Roll. With jazz band roots, he hit the scene with “Rock Island Line” that changed the British music industry forever. In doing so, he is credited with inspiring those who followed. Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Joe Cocker, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones et al.

July 27, 2018: Starts at 60: ​Remembering Lonnie Donegan, the King of Skiffle
Any baby boomer or 60-something asked about Lonnie Donegan might reply, “Oh yeah, ‘My Old Man’s A Dustman’.” However, Anthony James Donegan (more commonly known as Lonnie Donegan) was much more than that; he was the founding father of skiffle music in the ’50s.

​Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan MBE (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002) was a British skiffle musician, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name. He is known as the "King of Skiffle" and is often cited as a major influence on the generation of British musicians who became famous in the 1960s. The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums states Donegan was "Britain's most successful and influential recording artist before The Beatles. He chalked up 24 successive Top 30 hits, and was the first UK male to score two U.S. Top 10s". During his military service he met an American in Vienna who introduced him to the country and western music that would inspire a generation. He later changed his name in honour of black American guitarist Lonnie Johnson. Donegan’s huge success opened the gate for early British blues pioneers like Alexis Korner, Cyril Davis etc. putting the blues in the ears of young children who, a decade later, would be forming bands with names like the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds or any number of young outfits that created the early to mid-Sixties blues boom, the repercussions of which are still felt today, almost forty years later. In the opinion of the ‘Tales From The Woods’ editorial board, Lonnie was not just the first to popularise the blues or Black-American folk music. He was our first Rock’n’Roll star; if you like, our Bill Haley, Elvis, Lewis or Vincent. Lonnie Donegan died on 3 November 2002, aged 71, after having a heart attack in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire mid-way through a UK tour, and before he was due to perform at a memorial concert for George Harrison with the Rolling Stones. He had cardiac problems since the 1970s and several heart attacks.

April 15, 2016: Liverpool Echo: The night Lonnie Donegan played in a Liverpool living room - after playing the Empire
​Roger Baskeyfield recalled the magical night in 1956 when skiffle king Lonnie Donegan played the Liverpool Empire – and then accepted an invitation to go and play with Roger’s Coney Island Skiffle Group at his friend’s parents’ house.
Could this sort of thing still happen today? I’d like to think so, but this is an age when some bands actually charge their fans to meet them backstage after their gigs.
“It was really quite hard to take in,” said Roger.
“Afterwards we were thinking ‘Did that really happen?’”

March 11, 2016: Albie Media: News - Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me
In Jim Carter: Lonnie Donegan and Me, the actor shares his life-long passion for the 1950's singer known as the King of Skiffle, which began aged 11 when he saw Lonnie play at a seaside variety theatre on a summer holiday, as he tells the story of his profound impact on pop culture and a generation of British musicians who went on to conquer the world.

Nov 3, 2015: ​The Scotsman: When Lonnie Donegan collapsed mid-tour
​On this day in 2002, Lonnie Donegan, known as the king of skiffle and the inspiration behind bands such as The Beatles and The Who, died after collapsing midway through a British tour

Sept 30, 2010: Folking.com: ​PETER DONEGAN & THE LONNIE DONEGAN BAND – Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon
​I didn’t know quite what to expect when I entered the Ashcroft Theatre for this evening’s performance by Lonnie Donegan’s son Peter although perhaps the IKEA showroom wasn’t one of them. Possibly this was due in part to the other country tinged concert by Beth Neilson-Chapman in the main hall…or, more than likely…“True Blood” on the TV? Whatever, the last time I witnessed this personable young man was at the less than salubrious surroundings of the Viking Club in Selsey but at least it was stuffed with an expectant crowd hoping and getting a set predominantly geared to his father’s legacy of songs. Peter has a nice ‘easy-going’ quality and to the front row of the audience he could do no wrong but I must admit personally that in his capacity as a solo performer he seemed ill at ease reminding me more of a floor-singer with first night nerves at a folk club. ​

Lonnie Donegan 1956 performing rights info card

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