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Anything (Eric Burdon and the Animals song)

1968 single by Eric Burdon & the Animals

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 14, 2022
Entity authoritySource title only
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"Anything" is a song performed by Eric Burdon & the Animals in 1967. It was featured on their psychedelic rock album Winds of Change. While the singles "San Franciscan Nights", "Good Times" and the album were released, "Anything" was also released as a single, peaking #80 on the United States pop singles chart. Allmusic critic Bruce Eder described it as a "relatively straightforward, brooding, moody rocker." Billboard described the single as an "intriguing rock ballad with an equally compelling lyric." Cash Box said it was "slow rock with a tasteful touch of soul" with "stunning string lines" and a "melancholy Burdon vocal."

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“Anything (Eric Burdon and the Animals song)” enters the record as 1968 single by Eric Burdon & the Animals. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anything, Eric and Burdon can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anything (Eric Burdon and the Animals song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.