Donegan, who changed his first name from Anthony to Lonnie as a tribute to bluesman Lonnie Johnson, was an inspiration himself to a generation of British musicians including John Lennon and Pete ...

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Lonnie Donegan’s son Peter recounts the story of his father – The King of Skiffle – performing all the million-selling hits with the original Lonnie Donegan Band which toured with Lonnie for more than ...

NPR Music's Bob Boilen talks with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin about a song that changed his life, "Rock Island Line," by Lonnie Donegan. CORNISH: Page is one of the founding members of the rock band ...

Lonnie Donegan, a musician whose ” skiffle ” sound inspired John Lennon and Pete Townshend to learn to play guitar, died Sunday in Peterborough, central England, while on a tour of Britain, publicist ...

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Jim Carter tells the story of Lonnie Donegan - a crucial trailblazer in the birth of pop music and modern culture who inspired Lennon and McCartney.

Lonnie Donegan, the “king of skiffle” music, died Sunday in Peterborough, England, at the age of seventy-one. Although the exact cause of death is not known, Donegan had suffered several heart attacks ...

However, as this informative, entertaining and even inspiring film illustrated, nothing was going to stop the ebullient Jones from bursting out from coal-dust-coated, small-town anonymity. Everybody ...

Lonnie Donegan, 71, a musician whose "skiffle" sound inspired John Lennon and Pete Townshend to learn to play guitar, died Nov. 3 in Peterborough, England. He had a heart ailment. His hits included ...

Lonnie Donegan, who pioneered skiffle music, crucially altering British popular music and significantly influencing the Beatles, died Sunday Nov. 3 after collapsing while on tour in England. He was 71 ...