John Steel

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John Steel (born 4 February 1941) is an English musician best known as the drummer for The Animals.

He was the only original bandmember of The Animals to play in the new version.

His tenures with the band include 1963-1966, 1975–1976, 1983, and 1992–present.

Early life

John Steel was the youngest of four children. He attended Gateshead Grammar School. He and his siblings took piano lessons as an infant, but only Steel will go on to have a career in music. Steel was exposed to Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Fats Waller, and Sid Phillips' archives as an adult.

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Career

Steel began his career as a guitarist while attending college around 1957. Eric Burdon, the Animals' lead singer, was a student at Newcastle College of Art and Industrial Design, where they worked together. He worked in the drawing office of an aircraft company, which he later described as "awful" after the college and before founding the band.

The trumpet, which was his main instrument at the time, was the one he played in the first group in which he and Burdon were involved together. Steel's musical influences arose from traditional jazz, but he later drew inspiration from modern jazz. When he switched to drums, Steel admiration for jazz drummers like Elvin Jones and Art Blakey was on display. They went from jazz to rock 'n' roll,' with the introduction of the latest rock 'n' roll explosion.'

Steel met Alan Price at a church hop in Byker, Newcastle, in 1959, and the Alan Price Combo, together with Hilton Valentine (guitar) and Chas Chandler (bass) formed a band; by 1960, the Alan Price Combo had a following in Newcastle. Burdon came from a band called the Pagans in 1962, and the Animals were born.

Steel continued to play and record with them until February 1966. "Inside Looking Out" was his company's last charted single.

Steel returned to Newcastle and became a businessman, as well as being involved with former bandmate Chas Chandler's management and publishing companies. Chandler introduced him to the Eggs over Easy in 1971, with whom he appeared as they first discovered the pub rock music style. Steel has been active as a part-time local drummer and has appeared in several Animals' reunions over the years.

Colin Valentine, Dave Rowberry, Zoot Money, and Mick Gallagher have been touring since 1993 as the drummer with several of the Animals line-up. Hilton Valentine founded "Animals II" in 1993, which was joined by John Steel in 1994 and Dave Rowberry in 1999. Steve Hutchinson, Steve Dawson, and Martin Bland are among the band's other members. The band toured as the Animals from 1999 to Valentine's departure in 2001. Steel and Rowberry continued as "Animals and Friends" after Valentine left the Animals in 2001, with Peter Barton, Jim Rodford, and John Williamson, who was joined on occasion by ex-"New Animals" bassist Danny McCulloch. Rowberry was released by Mickey Gallagher (who had briefly substituted Alan Price in 1965) when he died in 2003. Animals and Friends continues to perform today, and the Color Line ship, which travels between Scandinavia and Germany, has a regular appearance.

Steel published an invited review of Sick of Being Me, a book by Sean Egan, a novelist and journalist with a number of publications relating to the music industry in 2003. In the 1990s, the book was about a struggling artist.

An adjudicator found that John Steel had used "The Animals" in the United Kingdom in 2008, despite the fact that Steel had registered the mark. Eric Burdon had objected to the trademark registration, alleging that Burdon personally represented any goodwill associated with the Animals name. Burdon's case was dismissed in part because he had billed himself as "Eric Burdon and the Animals" as early as 1967, thus separating the goodwill associated with his own name from that of the band.

Eric Burdon was granted an appeal in 2013 and named him as the Animal's owner.

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