| | DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS was born in London England, on September 13, 1941. His father was a twice wounded, highly decorated, Canadian soldier, his mother, a British music student who was playing the piano for the troops in a London hospital. Following the war, the family settled in Willowdale, a suburb of Toronto. While still in his teens , David began playing guitar and singing in "garage bands" and by the time he was twenty-one, his band, "The Shays" was playing bars on Toronto's Yonge Street "Strip". Rythym & Blues was the music of choice on "The Strip", it migrated up from Detroit and Chicago and was adopted by the young musicians of Toronto. David's earliest musical influences were Motown, and Chicago blues. He played the bars till midnight alongside Muddy Waters More... (Submit New David Clayton-Thomas Lyrics) (Submit New David Clayton-Thomas Lyrics) | | |||||||||
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