DALE HAWKINS

Formative rocker whose reputation rests on just one track, the much imitated Suzie-Q - a record which due to its utter rawness and strident beat is the absolute epitome of real rock n roll.

The son of poor Southern whites who split up when he was a child, Hawkins was born Delmar Allan Hawkins, 22 August 1938, in the small farming town of Goldmine, Louisana. In the sixties he also worked as a producer for Five Americans and Bruce Channel.