English blues musician (born 1933)
Musical artist
John Mayall
OBE
(born 29 November 1933)
[1]
is an English
blues
and
rock
musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
, a band that has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and
blues rock
musicians.
A singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and keyboardist, he has a career that spans nearly seven decades. At ninety years old, Mayall is one of the oldest active musicians. Mayall was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in the musical influence category in 2024.
Early life and adulthood
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Born in
Macclesfield
, Cheshire, in 1933,
[2]
Mayall grew up in
Cheadle Hulme
. He was the son of Murray Mayall, a guitarist and
jazz
enthusiast.
[
citation needed
]
From an early age he was drawn to the sounds of American blues players such as
Lead Belly
,
Albert Ammons
,
Pinetop Smith
and
Eddie Lang
, and taught himself to play the piano, guitars, and harmonica.
[3]
Career
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]
Starting out as a musician
[
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]
Mayall was sent to Korea as part of his
national service
,
[4]
and during a period of leave bought his first electric guitar in Japan. Back in England, he enrolled at
Manchester College of Art
and started playing with a semi-professional band, the Powerhouse Four.
[4]
After graduation, he obtained a job as an art designer, but continued to play with local musicians. In 1963, he opted for a full-time musical career and moved to London.
[4]
His previous craft would be put to good use in the designing of covers for many of his coming albums.
[4]
Early 1960s
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In 1956, with college fellow Peter Ward, Mayall had founded the Powerhouse Four, which consisted of the two men and other local musicians with whom they played at local dances.
[4]
In 1962 Mayall became a member of the Blues Syndicate.
[4]
The band was formed by trumpeter John Rowlands and alto saxophonist Jack Massarik, who had seen the
Alexis Korner
band at a Manchester club and wanted to try a similar blend of jazz and blues. It also included rhythm guitarist Ray Cummings and drummer
Hughie Flint
, whom Mayall already knew. In 1962 John and his band were frequent and popular artists at all-night R&B sessions at the Twisted Wheel cellar club in central Manchester.
Alexis Korner
persuaded Mayall to opt for a full-time musical career and move to London, where Korner introduced him to many other musicians and helped them to find gigs.
In late 1963, with his band, which was now called the Bluesbreakers, Mayall started playing at the
Marquee Club
.
[4]
The line-up was Mayall, Ward,
John McVie
on bass and guitarist Bernie Watson, formerly of
Cyril Davies
and the R&B All-Stars. The next spring Mayall obtained his first recording date with producer
Ian Samwell
. The band, with Martin Hart at the drums, recorded two tracks: "
Crawling Up a Hill
" and "Mr. James".
[5]
Shortly after, Hughie Flint replaced Hart and
Roger Dean
took the guitar from Bernie Watson. This line-up backed
John Lee Hooker
on his British tour in 1964.
Mayall was offered a recording contract by Decca and, on 7 December 1964, a live performance of the band was recorded at the Klooks Kleek. A later studio-recorded single, "Crocodile Walk", was released along with the album, but both failed to achieve any success and the contract was terminated.
In April 1965 former
Yardbirds
guitarist
Eric Clapton
replaced Roger Dean and John Mayall's career entered a decisive phase.
[6]
Mid-1960s through 1971
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Eric Clapton as guitarist, 1965?1966
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In 1965, with
Eric Clapton
as their new guitar player, the Bluesbreakers began attracting considerable attention. That summer the band cut a couple of tracks for a single, "
I'm Your Witchdoctor
" b/w "Telephone Blues" (released in October).
[7]
In August, however, Clapton left for a jaunt to Greece with a bunch of relative musical amateurs calling themselves the 'Glands'. John Weider, John Slaughter, and Geoff Krivit attempted to fill in as Bluesbreaker guitarist but, finally,
Peter Green
took charge. John McVie was dismissed, and during the next few months
Jack Bruce
, from the
Graham Bond Organisation
, played bass.
In November 1965 Clapton returned, and Green departed as Mayall had guaranteed Clapton his spot back in the Bluesbreakers whenever he tired of the Glands.
[8]
McVie was allowed back, and Bruce left to join
Manfred Mann
, but not before a live date by the Mayall-Clapton-Bruce-Flint line-up was recorded on Mayall's two-track tape recorder at London's Flamingo Club in November. The rough recording provided tracks that later appeared on the 1969 compilation
Looking Back
and the 1977
Primal Solos
.
[9]
[10]
The same line-up also entered the studio to record a planned single, "On Top of the World", which was not released at that time.
[11]
Mayall and Clapton cut a couple of tracks without the others (although some sources give this as occurring back in the summer): "Lonely Years" b/w "Bernard Jenkins" was released as a single the next August on producer
Mike Vernon
's Purdah Records label (both tracks appeared again two decades later in Clapton's
Crossroads
box set). In a November 1965 session, blues pianist-singer
Champion Jack Dupree
(originally from New Orleans but in the 1960s living in Europe) got Mayall and Clapton to play on a few tracks.
[10]
In April 1966, the Bluesbreakers returned to Decca Studios to record a second LP with producer Vernon. The sessions, with horn arrangements for some tracks (John Almond on baritone sax, Alan Skidmore on tenor sax, and Dennis Healey on trumpet), lasted just three days.
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
was released in the UK on 22 July 1966.
[4]
Several of the 12 tracks were covers of pure Chicago blues (side 1 kicking off strongly with
Otis Rush
's "
All Your Love
" and
Freddy King
's hit instrumental "
Hide Away
" [here spelled without a space as "Hideaway"]); Mayall wrote or arranged five (such as "Double Crossing Time", a slow blues with a scorching solo by co-writer Clapton); and Clapton debuted as lead vocalist, and began his practice of paying tribute to
Robert Johnson
, with "
Ramblin' on My Mind
". The album was Mayall's commercial breakthrough, rising to No. 6 on the
UK Albums Chart
, and has since gained classic status, largely for the audacious aggressiveness and molten fluidity of Clapton's guitar playing.
[4]
"It's Eric Clapton who steals the limelight," reported music mag
Beat Instrumental
, adding with unintended understatement, "and no doubt several copies of the album will be sold on the strength of his name."
[12]
In the meantime, on 11 June the formation of
Cream
?Clapton, bassist
Jack Bruce
, and drummer
Ginger Baker
?had been revealed in the music press, much to the embarrassment of Clapton, who had not said anything about this to Mayall. (After a May Bluesbreakers gig at which Baker had sat in, he and Clapton had first discussed forming their own band, and surreptitious rehearsal jams with Bruce soon commenced.) Clapton's last scheduled gig with the Bluesbreakers was 17 July in Bexley, south-east of London;
[13]
Cream made a warmup club debut 29 July in
Manchester
and its "official" live debut two days later at the Sixth National Jazz and Blues Festival,
Windsor
.
Peter Green as guitarist, 1966?1967
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Mayall had to replace Clapton, and he succeeded in persuading Peter Green to come back. During the following year, with Green on guitar and various other sidemen, some 40 tracks were recorded. The album
A Hard Road
was released in February 1967.
[4]
Today its expanded versions include most of this material, and the album itself also stands as a classic. In early 1967, Mayall released an
EP
recorded with American
blues harpist
Paul Butterfield
.
But Peter Green gave notice and soon started his own project, Peter Green's
Fleetwood Mac
, which eventually was to include all three of Mayall's Bluesbreakers at this time: Green, McVie, and drummer
Mick Fleetwood
who was a Bluesbreaker for only a few weeks. Two live albums,
Live in 1967
Volumes I and II, featuring this line-up were released on Forty Below Records in 2015 and 2016.
Mick Taylor as guitarist, 1967?1969
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Mayall's first choice to replace Green was 18-year-old
David O'List
, guitarist from the
Attack
. O'List declined, however, and went on to form
the Nice
with organist
Keith Emerson
. Through both a "musicians wanted" ad in
Melody Maker
on 10 June and his own search, Mayall found three other potential guitarists for his Bluesbreakers, a black musician named Terry Edmonds, John Moorshead, and 18-year-old
Mick Taylor
. The last made the band quickly, but Mayall also decided to hire Edmonds as a rhythm guitarist for a few days.
[14]
In the meantime, on a single day in May 1967, Mayall had assembled a studio album to showcase his own abilities. Former
Artwoods
drummer
Keef Hartley
appeared on only half of the tracks, and everything else was played by Mayall. The album was released in November titled
The Blues Alone
.
[4]
A six-piece line-up?consisting of Mayall,
Mick Taylor
as lead guitarist, John McVie still on bass,
Hughie Flint
or Hartley on drums, and Rip Kant and Chris Mercer on saxophones?recorded the album
Crusade
on 11 and 12 July 1967.
[4]
These Bluesbreakers spent most of the year touring abroad, and Mayall taped the shows on a portable recorder. At the end of the tour, he had over sixty hours of tapes, which he edited into an album in two volumes:
Diary of a Band, Vols. 1 & 2
, released in February 1968.
[4]
Meanwhile, a few line-up changes had occurred: McVie had departed and was replaced by Paul Williams, who himself soon quit to join
Alan Price
and was replaced by Keith Tillman;
Dick Heckstall-Smith
had taken the sax spot.
Following a US tour, there were more line-up changes, starting with the troublesome bass position. First Mayall replaced bassist Tillman with 15-year-old
Andy Fraser
. Within six weeks, though, Fraser left to join
Free
and was replaced by Tony Reeves, previously a member of the New Jazz Orchestra. Hartley was required to leave, and he was replaced by New Jazz Orchestra drummer
Jon Hiseman
(who had also played with the Graham Bond Organisation). Henry Lowther, who played violin and cornet, joined in February 1968. Two months later the Bluesbreakers recorded
Bare Wires
, co-produced by Mayall and Mike Vernon, which came up to UK No. 6.
[4]
Hiseman, Reeves, and Heckstall-Smith then moved on to form
Colosseum
. The Mayall line-up retained Mick Taylor and added drummer Colin Allen (formerly of
Zoot Money's Big Roll Band
/
Dantalian's Chariot
, and
Georgie Fame
) and a young bassist named Stephen Thompson. In August 1968 the new quartet recorded
Blues from Laurel Canyon
.
[4]
On 13 June 1969, after nearly two years with Mayall, Taylor left and joined the
Rolling Stones
.
[4]
Mark-Almond period, 1969?1970
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Chas Crane filled in briefly on guitar.
[
citation needed
]
Drummer Allen departed to join
Stone the Crows
. This left as the only holdover bassist Thompson who would also eventually join Stone the Crows.
Mayall tried a new format with lower volume, acoustic instruments, and no drummer. He recruited acoustic
fingerstyle guitarist
Jon Mark
and flautist-saxophonist
John Almond
. Mark was best known as
Marianne Faithfull
's accompanist for three years and for having been a member of the band
Sweet Thursday
(which included pianist
Nicky Hopkins
and future
Cat Stevens
collaborator
Alun Davies
, also a guitarist). Almond had played with Zoot Money and
Alan Price
and was no stranger to Mayall's music?he had played baritone sax on four cuts of
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
and some of
A Hard Road
. This new band was markedly different from previous Mayall projects, and its making is well documented both on the 1999 double CD
The Masters
and on the 2004 DVD
The Godfather of British Blues/The Turning Point
.
Along with the big change in sound, Mayall decided on a big change in scenery: a move to Los Angeles. The new band made its US debut at the
Newport Jazz Festival
on 5 July,
[14]
whilst the performance of 12 July at the
Fillmore East
provided the tracks for the live album
The Turning Point
.
[4]
A studio album,
Empty Rooms
, was recorded with the same personnel, with Mayall's next bassist, former
Canned Heat
member
Larry Taylor
, playing bass in a duet with Thompson on "To a Princess".
[4]
Harvey Mandel as guitarist, 1970?1971
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Mayall continued the experiment of formations without drummers on two more albums, although he took on a new electric blues-rock-R&B band in guitarist
Harvey Mandel
and bassist
Larry Taylor
, both plucked from
Canned Heat
, and wailing violinist
Don "Sugarcane" Harris
, lately of the
Johnny Otis
Show and formerly with
The Mothers of Invention
.
[4]
On
USA Union
(recorded in Los Angeles, 27?28 July 1970), though, Mandel was compelled to make do without his remarkable
sustain
and usage of
feedback
as musical, even melodic, technique; and on
Memories
the band was stripped down to a trio with Taylor and
Ventures
guitarist
Gerry McGee
.
[4]
In November 1970, Mayall launched a recording project involving many of the most notable musicians with whom he had played during the previous several years. The double album
Back to the Roots
features Clapton, Mick Taylor, Gerry McGee and Harvey Mandel on guitar; Sugarcane Harris on violin; Almond on woodwinds; Thompson and Larry Taylor on bass; and Hartley on drums.
[4]
Paul Lagos was with Sugarcane and ended up drumming on five. Mayall wrote all the songs and sang all the vocals, as usual by now, plus played harmonica, guitar, keyboards, drums, and percussion. The London sessions took place in January 1971 and as such represent some of Clapton's last work before Derek and the Dominos' attempted
Layla
follow-up sessions and band disintegration that spring.
Back to the Roots
did not promote new names, and
USA Union
and
Memories
had been recorded with American musicians.
[4]
Mayall had exhausted his catalytic role on the British blues-rock scene and was living in Los Angeles. Yet, the list of musicians who benefited from association with him, starting with ruling the London blues scene, remains impressive.
[15]
1970s
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By the start of the 1970s Mayall had relocated to the United States where he spent most of the next 15 years, recording with local musicians for various labels. In August 1971, Mayall produced a jazz-oriented session for bluesman
Albert King
[16]
and a few months later took on tour the musicians present in the studio.
A live album
Jazz Blues Fusion
was released in the following year, with Mayall on harmonica, guitar and piano,
Blue Mitchell
on trumpet, Clifford Solomon and
Ernie Watts
on saxophones, Larry Taylor on bass, Ron Selico on drums and
Freddy Robinson
on guitar. A few personnel changes are noted at the release of a similar album in 1973, the live
Moving On
.
In 1974, Mayall recorded The Latest Edition,
[17]
produced by
Tom Wilson
for the
Polydor
label. The group featured jazz saxophonist
Red Holloway
, drummer
Soko Richardson
, bassist
Larry Taylor
, and two guitarists,
Randy Resnick
and Hightide Harris. The band toured Europe and Asia that year.
During the next decade Mayall continued shifting musicians and switching labels and released a score of albums.
Tom Wilson
,
Don Nix
and
Allen Toussaint
occasionally served as producers. At this stage of his career most of Mayall's music was rather different from electric blues played by rock musicians, incorporating jazz, funk or pop elements and even adding female vocals. A notable exception is
The Last of the British Blues
(1978), a live album excused apparently by its title for the brief return to this type of music.
[18]
Return of the Bluesbreakers
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In 1982, Mayall was reunited with
Mick Taylor
,
John McVie
and
Colin Allen
, three musicians of his 1960s line-ups, for a two-year world tour from which a live album would emerge a decade later.
In 1984, Mayall restored the name Bluesbreakers for a line-up comprising the two lead guitars of
Walter Trout
and
Coco Montoya
, bassist Bobby Haynes and drummer Joe Yuele.
[4]
In the early 1990s, most of the excitement was already spent and
Buddy Whittington
became the sole lead guitarist in a formation which included then organist Tom Canning.
2000s
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On the occasion of the 40th year of his career, Mayall invited fellow musicians for the recording of a celebratory album.
Along for the Ride
appeared in 2001, credited to John Mayall and Friends with twenty names listed on the cover, including some Bluesbreakers, old and new, and also
Gary Moore
,
Jonny Lang
,
Steve Cropper
,
Steve Miller
,
Otis Rush
,
Billy Gibbons
, Greg Rzab,
Chris Rea
,
Jeff Healey
and
Shannon Curfman
.
To celebrate his 70th birthday, Mayall reunited with special guests
Eric Clapton
,
Mick Taylor
and
Chris Barber
during a fundraiser show. This "Unite for Unicef" concert took place on 19 July 2003 at the
Liverpool Arena
, and was captured on film for a DVD release.
In 2005, Mayall was appointed an OBE in the
Honours List
.
In November 2008, Mayall announced on his website he was disbanding the Bluesbreakers, to cut back on his heavy workload and give himself freedom to work with other musicians. Three months later a solo world tour was announced, with: Rocky Athas on guitar, Greg Rzab on bass, and Jay Davenport on drums. Tom Canning, on organ, joined the band for the tour which started in March 2009. An album was released in September 2009. Since then, Mayall has continued to tour with the same backing band, minus Canning, who left due to other priorities.
[19]
In 2015, Dinu Logos published
John Mayall: The Blues Crusader
,
[20]
the first biography of Mayall to include exhaustive details of every band he put together and every recording he made. In 2018, Mayall made a new addition to his band; his first female lead guitarist,
Carolyn Wonderland
.
[21]
Forty Below Records period
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In 2013, Mayall signed with producer Eric Corne's label, Forty Below Records. The two have produced four studio albums together,
A Special Life
featuring accordionist
C.J. Chenier
,
Find a Way to Care
,
Talk About That
featuring
Joe Walsh
and
Nobody Told Me
. Corne also re-mastered some live recordings from 1967 featuring Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood released as
Live in 1967
in 3 volumes. In 2016, Mayall was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
Mayall's autobiography,
Blues From Laurel Canyon: My Life As A Bluesman
, co-written with author
Joel McIver
, was published by
Omnibus Press
in August 2019.
[22]
In 2024, Mayall was selected for induction into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 2024 in the musical influence category.
[23]
[24]
Personal life
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Mayall began living in the US part time in the late 1960s, living there full time by the early 1970s. A brush fire destroyed his house in
Laurel Canyon
in 1979, seriously damaging his musical collections and archives.
Mayall has been married twice, and has six children and six grandchildren. His second wife, Maggie Mayall, is an American blues performer, and since the early 1980s she has taken part in the management of her husband's career. They married in 1982,
[25]
and divorced in 2011.
[26]
[27]
Honours
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In 2005, Mayall was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
(OBE) in the Honours List.
[28]
[29]
[30]
Band members
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As of 2020
[update]
:
[31]
Discography
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Studio albums
See also
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References
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- ^
"UPI Almanac for Friday, Nov. 29, 2019"
.
United Press International
. 29 November 2019.
Archived
from the original on 24 December 2019
. Retrieved
11 January
2020
.
British blues musician John Mayall in 1933 (age 86)
- ^
"Pride of Manchester's guide to John Mayall"
. Retrieved
15 June
2013
.
- ^
"
Biography
" at the Official John Mayall site.
Archived
26 December 2011 at the
Wayback Machine
. As of 2009 there is no privileged source for biographical data on John Mayall. The book
John Mayall: Blues Breaker
by Richard Newman, Sanctuary Publishing (1996)
ISBN
978-1-86074-129-6
is an
'unauthorised' biography
disavowed by Mayall himself. Many of his songs have lyrics directly referring to events in his life.
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The Guinness Who's Who of Blues
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Guinness Publishing
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ISBN
0-85112-673-1
.
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Tobler, John (1992).
NME Rock 'N' Roll Years
(1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 134. CN 5585.
- ^
A chronicle of the main events in Mayall's early career is to be found in
Blues-rock Explosion
, eds. McStravick, S. and Roos, J. (2001) Old Goat,
ISBN
0-9701332-7-8
- ^
During Clapton's stay with the Bluesbreakers, the (in)famous graffito "Clapton is God" appeared on a wall in the London Underground.
- ^
Marc Roberty,
The Eric Clapton Scrapbook
, 1994, New York: Citadel Press, p. 14
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Roberty, pp. 12?14
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b
Hjort, Christopher
(2007).
Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965?1970
. London, UK: Jawbone Press. pp. g. 29.
ISBN
978-1-906002-00-8
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Hjort, Christopher
(2007).
Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965?1970
. London, UK: Jawbone Press. pp. g. 30.
ISBN
978-1-906002-00-8
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Beat Instrumental, September 1966
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Hjort, Christopher
(2007).
Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965?1970
. London, UK: Jawbone Press. pp. g. 57.
ISBN
978-1-906002-00-8
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Hjort, Christopher (2007).
Strange Brew : Eric Clapton and The British Blues Boom 1965?1970
. London: Jawbone. p.
352
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ISBN
978-1-906002-00-8
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Pete Frame
, The Complete Rock Family Trees, Omnibus Press 1993.
ISBN
978-0-7119-0465-1
- ^
The result was shelved, but ultimately it was released in 1986 as
The Lost Session
. Mayall had played in 1968 at the
Winterland
and
The Fillmore
in San Francisco, sharing triple bills with Albert King and
Jimi Hendrix
(concert available from
Wolfgang's Vault
).
- ^
"The latest Edition"
.
Discogs
.
- ^
A recording of the show at
The Bottom Line
in New York, 10 July 1977 is available from
Wolfgang's Vault
- ^
"Biography"
. John Mayall. Archived from
the original
on 26 December 2011
. Retrieved
30 December
2011
.
- ^
Logos, Dinu (2015).
John Mayall: The Blues Crusader
. Edition Olms. p. 120.
ISBN
978-3283012281
. Retrieved
1 August
2015
.
- ^
"John Welcomes Carolyn Wonderland to the Band"
.
Johnmayall.com
. Retrieved
16 August
2018
.
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Mayall, John; McIver, Joel (31 October 2019).
Blues from Laurel Canyon: John Mayall: My Life as a Bluesman
. Omnibus Press.
ISBN
978-1785581786
.
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"2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees"
.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
. 22 April 2024
. Retrieved
22 April
2024
.
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Greene, Andy (22 April 2024).
"Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Matthews Band, Mary J. Blige Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2024 Class"
.
Rolling Stone
. Retrieved
22 April
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.
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Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
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"Maggie Mayall: No Limit Blues"
, interview by Michael Limnios, Blues.Gr, 19 May 2012
- ^
The Divorce Diaries
by Maggie Mayall, 7 December 2011
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Goldsmith, Margie (12 February 2013).
"Bluesmaster John Mayall Rocks NYC"
.
Huffington Post
. Retrieved
22 February
2019
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"
British royal honor pleases John Mayall
".
UPI
. 29 June 2005.
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Brandle, Lars. "
Queen’s List Honors For Ure, May, Page
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Billboard
. 13 June 2005.
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"The Band"
. John Mayall. 2018
. Retrieved
26 July
2020
.
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