Lonnie Donegan
- MatchLonnie Donegan
- 100%Marty Wilde
- 57%Tommy Steele
- 52%John Leyton
- 39%The Fortunes
- 36%Chris Andrews
- 35%Helen Shapiro
- 34%Brenda Lee
- 34%The Hollies
- 32%The Searchers
- 26%Herman's Hermits
Biography
Anthony James Donegan, 29 April 1931, Glasgow, Scotland, d. 4 November 2002, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Donegan, as The King Of Skiffle, became a more homogeneous UK equivalent to Elvis Presley than Tommy Steele. Donegan s mother was Irish and his father Scottish, and from the age of two he was raised in East Ham, London. Steeped in traditional jazz and its by-products, Donegan was a guitarist in a skiffle band before a spell in the army found him drumming in the... Read more