With which band was Lonnie Donegan before he went solo
Lonnie Donegan Festival Hall they opened for the blues musician Lonnie Johnson. Donegan had adopted his first name as a tribute. He used the name at a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 2 June 1952. In 1953 cornetist Ken Colyer was imprisoned in New Orleans for a visa problem. He returned to Britain and joined Chris Barber's band. They changed the name to Ken Colyer's Jazzmen and made its first public appearance on 11 April 1953 in Copenhagen. The following day, Chris Albertson recorded Ken Colyer's Jazzmen and the Monty Sunshine Trio – Sunshine, Barber, and Donegan – for Storyville
Lonnie Donegan with the Lonnie Donegan Group Jeremy Price, "Lonnie Donegan, Rock Island Line » et la corne d’abondance", "Volume!", n° 7-2, Nantes, Éditions Mélanie Seteun, 2010. Lonnie Donegan Anthony James Donegan (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002), known as Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop musicians. Born in Scotland and raised in England from the age of 1, the "British Hit Singles & Albums" lists him as "Britain's most successful and influential recording artist before The Beatles". Donegan had 31 UK Top 30 single