Eric Burdon & The Animals The Twain Shall Meet Vinyl LP Jacket autographed by Eric Burdon, John Weider, Vic Briggs and Danny McCulloch and Barry Jenkins. - 1968. 12x12 inches. This is cover only. Vinyl is NOT included Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter and actor. He was previously the vocalist of rhythm and blues and rock band the Animals and funk band War. He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, powerful blues-rock voice. The Animals are an English rhythm-and-blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The band moved to London upon finding fame in 1964.