The Black Plague - Eric Burdon & The Animals

A sad, kind of creepy song but Eric makes it a good song anyway
Released in 1967
From the CD 'Winds of Change'

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Music

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• The
• Black
• Plague
• Animals
• Eric
• Burdon
• 1967

[bighettym666]

is this based on the black death that killed millions of people in europe?

[SixtiesMusicLover]

I would think so.

[shestalou]

This is one of my favorites, I think its so awesome how he tells the story of the black plague, you can almost picture it as he tells it. One thing about Eric Burden is no subject is taboo in his music, he truly is one of Rock n Roll's biggest legends ever.

[soutltank]

so sad, yes but please listen

[Nickidemic]

beginning sounds like halo. just sayin.

[jdmfonte]

Eric's bio charts his Californiahood around this time. After seeing the Animals at the Armory in Tampa in 65, a difference as wide as Grand canyon is as obvious as Dracula gettin' Communion.

Max Brooks adds fuel to the horror.

We run around ON MINIMIZE to the DIZNEYGODS..

Occupy that, T shitys.

[topdog25608]

@bighettym666 yes

[topdog25608]

Bring out your dead.

[poshi12]

imagine this with zombies:]

[TheKenfig]

VERY patchy album from 1967 which suffers from a lack of good original material and pretentious moments. 'Good Times' and 'San Franciscan Nights', the two singles being the exceptions

[TheKenfig]

@bluejazz51 Aye, an tha Black Plague med it's weh down ta tha Metro Center in Gateshead an killed oll those poowa people down there

[JohannesFilipAndre]

can't wait to see Eric Burdon & The Animals this august :)

Up in the country side in norway

[marcfedak]

Thanks SixtiesMusicLover for posting this -- it reminds me of another great grim Gregorian chant influenced 60s song, "Still I'm Sad" by the Yardbirds.

[theegee1]

This is deep. I love anything and everything by Eric Burdon. Thank you for this. I just finished listening to "Winds of Change".