Dave Rowberry

Dave Rowberry was either one of the most fortunate of second-tier rock musicians in mid-'60s England, or one of the worst hard-luck cases of his era. He got to play on some of the most well-known singles by the Animals, and the best albums in the group's history, yet he's always been treated in most accounts of the group's history as almost an afterthought, in the shadow of his predecessor in the group, Alan Price. A musician since his teens, he'd been too good at the keyboards to complete the degree that he'd sought at the University of Newcastle. Instead, he built a reputati...