Biography
In the late 60s of the 20th century, young British musicians, creating a group, were not afraid to name it in honor of the character of the novel Charles Dickens "Life of David Copperfield, told by himself", personifying deception and podhalimage. The stylistic experiments of the team were the forerunners of many areas of rock music, and singer John Looton, who soliced in Uriah Heep a little less than 3 years, was remembered by the listeners with a bright baritone.Childhood and youth
The future vocalist was born on July 11, 1946 in the city of Halifax, where the head of John the Baptist was buried on the legend after execution. Full star name Uriah Heep (UH) - John Cooper Loton. The guy's vocal career began in the teenage group The Deans ("Rebelkers") - peers gave John a place at the microphone by voting.
As the singer Looton brought up on the vocal artist vocals, such as John Lee Huccher, Mahalia Jackson, Otis Redding and Big Mom Thornton. However, in his youth, the teams in which he failed - West One and Stonewall - stimulated him to sing a higher voice than its natural timbre. After the West German vigi, the second of these groups Looton remained to live and work in Hamburg.
Music
At the beginning of the 70s of the 20th century, John worked for wear in two Anglo-German groups of different stylistic orientation: Lucifer's Friend, who performed the prog rock of mystical orientation, and Les Humphries Singers, created songs that sounded on dance pieces. In the 1974th of the versatile singer, a bass guitarist Deep Purple Roger Glover was invited to recording the BASTERFLY BALL project, after 2 years, recommended by Looton to the Uriah Heep team to change the David Bayron.When the multi-toolist and the author of the songs Uh Ken Hensley called John, the native of Halifax was badly familiar with the group's discography and urgently bought the record "The Best of ..." to learn the composition before listening. Casting was successful, and for almost 3 years the singer acted in the group and recorded 4 albums with it: Fallen Angel, Innocent Victim, Firefly and Concert Live '79. Louton's voice sounds in such hits Uriah Heep, like FREE ME, SYMPATHY, COME Back to Me. As a result of the conflict with Hensley, John left UH.
In the further biography of Looton there were many solo and collective projects, as well as concerts with Lucifer's Friend, and with Uriah Heep. However, difficult times happened when the vocalist earned the life of commercial jingles, advertising goods.
At the end of 2008, John made a storyteller in a series of documentaries of Bulgarian television, dedicated to the cities of the South Slavic Country: Burgas, Varna, Stara Zagora and others. The series was accompanied by Mamonama's debut album, released 2 months before the television projects of the Louton project and the Netherlands Musician Jan Dude on the Rock. In 2010, the singer made his debut as a film actor in the Bulgarian art film Love.net, the plot of which, as a puzzle, consists of stories started in the World Wide Web. Loton in the picture embodied the image of his namesake - John Johnson.
Personal life
In the summer of 1977, at the peak of the popularity of the collective, named after the Antagonist of the Roman Charles Dickens, John connected himself to the wedding bonds with German Iris Melis, from whom he met back in 1968 during the tour of the Stonewall group in Hamburg, and lived since 1969. The linguistic barrier between the lovers was not stood: the native of Halifax perfectly owned the Language of Friedrich Schiller.
According to the Rock Observer of the BBC Radio Station, Seva Novgorodtsev, it is a personal life that damaged the development of a looton career in Uriah HEEP. John, who adored his spouse, took her on all the tour. A young woman deprived of its own field of activity, in the group of the group, gave advice to her husband and his colleagues. Rockers not related to the advice of intimate Uzami perceived her interest as obsession and interference in their work and business and preferred to part with the Loboodon.
Unlike many rock musicians, dissolved marriages, prisoners in youth, the British singer lived in favorites in love and harmony to his death. In an interview with Edition in Rock in 2001, Loton joked that he did not lose his hair over the years, since regular sex with his wife is the best tool from baldness. Iris gave John two children - Patrick and Natalie. Harifax natives passed in alcohol and drugs.
Death
The rock musician died suddenly on June 29, 2021, without surviving 2 weeks before his 75th anniversary. The sad news made public the official website of the Uriah Heep group, who published a photo John and reporting that at the time of the sudden death, next to the former soloist, his wife was, but not specifying the cause of Loton's death.According to the testament of the singer, only members of the family and close friends were attended on Him. In 2020, the terrestrial biographies of the former drummer Uriah Heep Lee Kersleik and one of the founders of the Ken Hensley group were completed.
Discography
With the Asterix group:
- 1970 - Asterix.
With Lucifer's Friend:
- 1970 - Lucifer's Friend
- 1972 - Where The Groupies Killed The Blues
- 1973 - I'm Just A Rock 'N' Roll Singer
- 1974 - Banquet.
- 1975 - Mind Exploding
- 1981 - Mean Machine
- 1994 - Sumogrip.
- 2015 - awakening
- 2016 - Tooo Late to Hate
- 2019 - Black Moon
With a group Uriah Heep:
- 1977 - Firefly.
- 1977 - Innocent Victim
- 1978 - Fallen Angel
Solo:
- 1980 - Heartbeat.
- 2000 - Still Payin 'My Dues ...
- 2000 - Heeppsteria!
With the group The John Lawton Band:
- 2003 - STING IN THE TALE - 2003
- 2008 - Mamonama.
With Intelligent Music Project:
- 2012 - The Power Of Mind
- 2014 - My Kind Of Lovin '