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Crazy Cavan
12+ albums
rockabillybritishpsychobillypsychedelicteddy boy
about
"Crazy" Cavan Grogan (died 15 February 2020) was a Welsh rockabilly singer and band leader. He formed Crazy Cavan & The Rhythm Rockers in 1970, with the band still actively touring and recording prior to Grogan's death in 2020. Grogan started out as "Screamin' Count Dracula & the Vampires", along with Lyndon Needs, Terry Walley and Gerald Bishop. Although they loved doing those first early gigs, the band was short-lived due to their young ages and no one having a driver's license. It was a good start, though, and encouraged by those who went to see them, they knew that, despite the media not playing it, Rock 'n' Roll wasn't dead and forgotten, and there were still thousands of kids out there who hadn't even heard of Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent or Johnny Burnette. Grogan's sound was first heard of as far back as 1964, when Grogan, Lyndon Needs and Terry Walley decided to form a group which at first was called "Count Dracula and the Vampires" and later for a short time was known as "The Sundogs". In 1968 Grogan, Needs and Walley teamed up with boogie piano player Brian Thomas and bass player Don Kinsella, as "The Sundogs". They got 'Crazy' Cavan Grogan; a dynamic, mean-looking and rubber-legged singer with the longest pair of drainpipes in the business. Lyndon Needs, fresh from school and the guitar shop; ready to play all the flashy leads, and if you gave him an inch of stage he'd leap miles in every direction. Terry Walley, who doffed a rhythm guitar and a cowboy hat an
