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97-503: The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters between 1958 and 1959) were an English instrumental rock group, who dominated the British popular music charts in the pre- Beatles era from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. They served as the backing band for Cliff Richard from 1958 to 1968, and have joined him for several reunion tours. The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to

194-461: A sprinter at Dudden Hill secondary modern school earned him the nickname Jet. Although he learned to play clarinet as a teenager, he made his own four-string double bass to play in a jazz group and later graduated to a professionally made double bass. In 1958, while playing jazz with drummer Tony Crombie and his group the Rockets, Crombie got a Framus bass guitar for Harris, making him one of

291-606: A bit of nudging from Norrie Paramor, they set about finding a permanent name, which arrived out of the blue one summer's day in July 1959 (maybe the 19th). When Hank Marvin and Jet Harris took off on their scooters up to the Six Bells pub at Ruislip, Jet hit upon a name straight away. 'What about the Shadows?' The lad was a genius! So we became the Shadows for the first time on Cliff's sixth single " Travellin' Light ". The Shadows were also becoming

388-556: A comeback as the "Jet Harris Band", in 1966 and was briefly in the line-up of The Jeff Beck Group in 1967, but somewhat fell out of the music industry . He then worked variously as a labourer , bricklayer , porter in a hospital, bus conductor , and as a seller of cockles on the beach in Jersey . Harris was declared bankrupt in 1988. The BBC reported that it took Harris 30 years of heavy drinking before he finally admitted to being an alcoholic and sought help. For many years, Harris made

485-524: A cover album in the same vein as early Polydor releases with singles " Moonlight Shadow " and Bruce Springsteen 's, " Dancing in the Dark " both failing to make a dent in the singles chart. Due to Alan Jones's involvement with the Dave Clark 's musical Time , the bassist was not available to contribute to the album, and Paul Westwood temporarily sat in. Moonlight Shadows was released on LP and CD simultaneously as

582-627: A duo with former Shadows drummer Tony Meehan , he topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in early 1963 with a cover of Jerry Lordan 's " Diamonds ". Harris and Meehan followed this with two further hit singles, " Scarlett O'Hara " (also written by Jerry Lordan) a UK No. 2, and " Applejack " (composed by Les Vandyke ) reaching UK No. 4 also in 1963. Tracks from "Diamonds" onward were recorded with Harris using standard Fender Jaguar and Gretsch guitars, usually de-tuned to D instead of E. Harris and Meehan also made two short cameo appearances in

679-444: A few vocal numbers. Their rhythmic style is primarily on the beat , with little syncopation . They said in 1992 that "Apache" set the tone with its surf guitar sound. The Shadows and their management did not exploit commercial opportunities such as self-promotion via artwork. They allowed Vox to produce metallic badges in a script typeface, with the group name on the front bottom right corner of all three Vox cabinets sometime during

776-400: A follow-up album with 13 old tracks (including a Marvin solo track) and one unreleased track from the 'String of Hits' sessions. These tracks came from albums released earlier in the group's career of cover versions of hit singles; this was eventually released as Another String of Hot Hits in 1980. After 20 successful years together, the Shadows parted ways with their record company EMI and

873-601: A hit, Harris and Meehan hired Jones to play bass in their touring band. There were several court appearances involving drunkenness and violent behaviour before the partnership with Meehan came to an abrupt end in September 1963 when a car crash on what was then the A44 (now the B4084) near Evesham , Worcestershire , (in which his girlfriend, singer Billie Davis , was also injured), meant that this success did not last long. Harris attempted

970-480: A legal injunction from the U.S. band, who at the time unbeknownst to its members shared the same name. In 1959, after the neck of his Framus was terminally damaged in a dressing room accident, Harris was presented by the importers with a Fender Precision Bass , one of the first to come to Britain from the United States. Other sources state that Cliff Richard gave Jet the first Fender Bass (a "Sunburst") guitar in

1067-422: A lifetime ambition by touring UK theatres with his own show, "Me and My Shadows". The Rapiers performed as his 'Shadows', and he had a special guest star in his former girlfriend Billie Davis, who had rescued him when the pair were in a road crash in late 1963 that effectively ended his career. "I'm going to go out in my twilight years with a big bang—and 'Me and My Shadows' is one of my little dreams," Harris said at

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1164-556: A music producer at Decca Records . He was replaced by Brian Bennett . In April 1962, Jet Harris was replaced by Brian "Licorice" Locking . Bennett and Locking were friends from the 2I's who had been in Marty Wilde 's backing group, the Wildcats, who recorded instrumentals as the Krew Kats. This Shadows line-up released seven hit singles, two of which, " Dance On! " and " Foot Tapper ", topped

1261-587: A new band name was urgently needed. The name "The Shadows" was thought up by bass guitarist Jet Harris (unaware of Bobby Vee 's backing group) while he and Marvin were at the Six Bells pub in Ruislip in July 1959. From The Story of the Shadows : With a combination of the American situation, Cliff Richard's first number 1 hit, the runaway success "Living Doll" had by now sold over a million copies in Britain alone and after

1358-412: A new version of "Apache", without bass and percussion, for use in the documentary. On 17 December 2022, BBC2 showed Cliff at Christmas , with Welch and Bennett appearing as guests performing "Move It". The Shadows are difficult to categorise because of their stylistic range, which includes pop , rock , surf rock and ballads with a jazz influence. Most of their tunes are instrumental rock , with

1455-459: A number of solo albums; one of the best-known of these was his 1990 release, Passion and Warfare . Jason Becker released two albums with Cacophony . Cacophony were a primarily instrumental group featuring Becker and Marty Friedman (the latter of whom went on to play with the thrash metal band Megadeth ). After the release of Cacophony's second album Go Off! in 1988, Becker released two solo albums before being diagnosed with ALS . He now uses

1552-489: A number one album, prompted the group to re-form once more for a 'Twenty Golden Dates' tour around the UK, featuring Francis Monkman (formerly of Curved Air and soon to be in Sky ) on keyboards and Alan Jones on bass guitar. Monkman left after that tour, and the line-up settled as Marvin, Welch and Bennett, supplemented on records and gigs by Cliff Hall (keyboards) and Alan Jones (bass). It

1649-531: A point in his stage shows of saying how long it had been since he quit drinking, winning applause from audiences who knew how it had wrecked his career in the 1960s. Harris still played occasionally, with backing band the Diamonds or as a guest with the Rapiers, and guested with Tony Meehan at Cliff Richard's 1989 'The Event' concerts. In 1998, he was awarded a Fender Lifetime Achievement Award for his role in popularising

1746-411: A popular band in their own right and in 1960, " Apache ", an instrumental by Jerry Lordan , topped the UK charts for five weeks. Further hits followed, including the number ones " Kon Tiki " and " Wonderful Land ", another Lordan composition with orchestral backing and even for eight weeks at number 1. The Shadows played on further hits as Richard's band. In October 1961, drummer Tony Meehan left to be

1843-445: A popular choice to represent the UK and the viewers' postal vote was the lowest in 'Song For Europe' history. EMI however released a compilation album in 1976, spanning 1962 to 1970: Rarities with sleeve notes by John Friesen. The first half of the album was from Marvin's solo career, and the second was by the Shadows. Following the rare vocal single "It'll Be Me, Babe", written and sung by Marvin & Farrar, John Farrar amicably left

1940-622: A progressive rock album released in 1973, was all instrumental (save for some brief spoken words) and is one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever, with 16 million copies sold. A portion of it was used in the soundtrack of the Academy Award-winning film The Exorcist . One of the most acclaimed albums of the band Camel , 1975's The Snow Goose , was entirely instrumental. Many of Pink Floyd 's early compositions were largely instrumental pieces containing structured jams fusing psychedelic , progressive and space rock . Frank Zappa

2037-427: A proper band logo, four silhouettes of the original line-up, in ascending order of height, were used as a pseudo-logo on concert programme covers and artwork projects such as sheet music, EP and album covers. From left to right after the drum-kit were Meehan, Harris, Marvin, and Bruce Welch. The original artwork group silhouette was modified each time a member changed: the last version featured Brian Bennett and Rostill in

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2134-490: A reconstituted Shadows were chosen by BBC Head of Light Entertainment Bill Cotton to perform the Song for Europe in the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest . The Shadows recorded six songs, seen each week on a weekly television show It's Lulu , on BBC1 and hosted by Lulu , a former Eurovision winner. The group taped all six performances in the TV studio before the series itself began, with

2231-448: A single at the tail end of 1978. The record eventually reached number 5 in the singles chart thereby giving the group their first top ten single since the 1960s. In 1979, their version of " Cavatina " also became a top ten hit, and they recorded ten more tracks with bassist Jones and keyboardists Dave Lawson and Alan Hawkshaw for the album String of Hits on EMI which topped the British album charts. The success of this led to EMI issuing

2328-478: A trademark scream, used in the Shadows' "Feeling Fine" and Cliff Richard's " Do You Wanna Dance? " In Mike Read 's book, The Story of the Shadows , Harris attributed the start of his depression and related alcohol addiction to discovering that Cliff Richard had had an affair with his wife Carol Costa (whom he had married in 1959) after they were separated. In 1962, Harris left The Shadows following disagreements, mostly with Bruce Welch over his drinking habit (this

2425-413: A trio, vocal harmony group. They were favourably compared to USA folk close harmony group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (a.k.a. CSNY) and The Hollies . Their second album, Second Opinion (1971), produced by Peter Vince, was voted one of the best ever sounding albums recorded at Abbey Road studios by EMI Records' sound engineers in a private poll during the 1970s. The band lasted until 1973. In 1975,

2522-415: A vocal A-side with an instrumental A-side. The vocal songs "Mary Anne", "Don't Make My Baby Blue", and "I Met A Girl" all made the UK top 30, and "The Dreams I Dream" peaked at #42. Instrumental numbers also continued to chart, including "Genie With The Light Brown Lamp", "Stingray", "The War Lord", "A Place In The Sun" and "Maroc 7", all top 30 hits. During the 1960s, the group appeared with Cliff Richard in

2619-612: A wheelchair and is completely unable to play. Pepeu Gomes , a Brazilian electric guitar player, was considered in 1988 by American magazine Guitar World one of the ten best guitar players in the world. Although he has pure instrumental rock songs with no Brazilian flavour, he mixes the Brazilian rhythms and tunes from well known popular songs, or simply composes by himself using Samba , Choro , Maracatu etc. In 1990, Steve Vai released Passion and Warfare . A fusion of rock, jazz, classical and Eastern tonalities, Passion and Warfare

2716-923: Is now available in the DVD The Final Reunion . A new studio based album, Reunited , featuring mostly rerecorded versions of their own hits, reached number four in the UK Albums Chart in 2009. "Singing the Blues", the first "Cliff Richard and the Shadows" single for 40 years, reached number 40 in the UK Singles Chart , and is Richard's most recent top 40 hit. The Final Tour was put on Blu-ray format by Eagle Records in 2010. Welch, Bennett, Mark Griffiths and Warren Bennett performed two Shadows hits ("Apache" and "Wonderful Land") at Albert Lee 's 70th birthday concerts at Cadogan Hall, London, on 1 and 2 March 2014, Lee playing with them on lead guitar. The Shadows recorded an interpretation of John Barry's " The Appointment " for

2813-560: Is one of rock music's first recorded guitar jam sessions. During the 70s, some musicians released instrumental records such as Dennis Coffey's "Scorpio"(1971), Booker T & the MGs' "Melting Pot", Incredible Bong Band's "Apache", Hot Butter's "Popcorn"(1972) and Rhythm Heritage "Theme from S.W.A.T."(1976). The Allman Brothers Band is often not considered an instrumental rock band , but they play many instrumentals and include long instrumental passages in longer versions of their songs. A good example

2910-486: Is the 22-minute version of Whipping Post in At Fillmore East LP. Their instrumentals, " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed " and "Jessica" are popular, with "Jessica" being featured as theme for both the 1977 and 2002 formats of Top Gear . Jeff Beck also recorded two entirely instrumental albums in the 1970s: Blow by Blow and Wired . Successful among mainstream audiences, both have strong jazz influences,

3007-504: The Beatles ' music catalog as guitar -based instrumental rock on the Apple iTunes music download service. The 2000s gave way for a new style of performer. John Lowery (a.k.a. John 5) released a solo instrumental album after leaving Marilyn Manson in 2003. Vertigo is composed of a fusion of metal , rockabilly , rock and roll , and bluegrass musical styles. The album was a success, and

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3104-419: The 1980s and 1990s, the instrumental rock genre was dominated by several guitar soloists, including Joe Satriani , Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai . The 2000s gave way to a new style of instrumental performer. For example, John Lowery (a.k.a. John 5) , released a series of solo instrumental albums. The 2000s also saw the rise of instrumental music by bands that have been labeled post-rock . Instrumental rock

3201-521: The 1980s, the instrumental rock genre was dominated by several guitar soloists. Swedish virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen made a name for himself in 1984 by playing in the popular band Alcatrazz , and then by releasing his debut solo album Rising Force later that year, reaching #60 on the Billboard Charts. Joe Satriani 's 1987 album Surfing With The Alien was a surprise hit, containing the popular instrumental ballad "Always With Me, Always With You", and

3298-583: The 1990s, instrumental music flourished among indie-rock groups and with the popularity of post rock groups like Tortoise , Mogwai and Cul de Sac . Don Caballero gained notice for their instrumental math rock, as did neo-surf-rockers the Mermen and Man or Astro-man? . Quentin Tarantino 's film Pulp Fiction made heavy use of rock instrumentals on its soundtrack, spurring some interest in classic instrumentals, and revitalizing Dick Dale 's career. With

3395-582: The 2000s, 35 as the Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and the Shadows , ranging from pop , rock , surf rock and ballads with a jazz influence. The group, who were in the forefront of the UK beat-group boom, were the first backing band to emerge as stars. As pioneers of the four-member instrumental format, the band consisted of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums. The Shadows built their signature sound on Fender guitars and Vox amplifiers, but around 1964, they replaced their Fenders with Burns guitars, with Bruce Welch citing tuning issues as

3492-486: The 2015 Brian Bennett album Shadowing John Barry . Rumours circled in late 2016 about a reunion and a tour with Richard, but this did not occur. On 1 May 2020, BBC4 showed The Shadows at Sixty , a documentary looking back at their success as they celebrated the 60th anniversary of their first No 1 hit, " Apache ". Marvin, Welch and Bennett all gave interviews and the programme included some previously unseen footage from their early days. Marvin, Welch, and Bennett performed

3589-651: The MG's and saxophonist Junior Walker . Just before the British Invasion , Lonnie Mack 's version of Chuck Berry 's "Memphis" reached #5 on the Billboard Pop chart in June 1963. Employing both the blues scale and distortion, it ushered in the era of blues rock guitar of Eric Clapton , Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan . The early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac with bandleader Peter Green achieved number one chart positions with

3686-473: The Piltdown Men 's "McDonald's Cave"), but the guitar was most prominent. Duane Eddy scored several hits (his best known probably being " Rebel-'Rouser "). Eddy was the first rock & roll artist to release an album in stereo. The Fireballs , featuring the distinctive guitar work of George Tomsco, began their career in the late 1950s with instrumental hits such as "Torquay" and "Bulldog." The band pioneered

3783-513: The Pops performances, notably Mud , the Rubettes , Showaddywaddy and Yellow Dog . 'The walk' is three steps within a 60–60–60-degree triangle, with a reverse right-heel back-kick, with optional can-can finale. This was varied throughout a gig during certain numbers, for example "FBI". During the 1980s, rather than play in a static posture during an instrumental number, or using the walk, their live act

3880-584: The Shadowers, led by guitarist Justin Daish. He began plans for a new show, featuring fresh material he had never performed before. However, regular tour dates and studio recordings with the Shadowers, Brian "Licorice" Locking and Alan Jones, though discussed, never materialised due to Harris' poor health. His last concert (5 February 2011 at Ferneham Hall, Fareham ) saw him perform one tune ("Here I Stand" from his album The Phoenix Rises ) with both Locking and Jones; this

3977-522: The Shadows as Wishee, Washee, Noshee and Poshee; Cinderella at the Palladium in 1966 featured Richard as Buttons and the Shadows as the Broker's Men. Their film and stage roles allowed the group to develop as songwriters. They wrote only a few songs for the earliest film, 1961's The Young Ones , but, by Finders Keepers in 1966, almost the entire soundtrack was credited to Marvin-Welch-Bennett-Rostill. In 1967,

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4074-477: The Shadows each have had four No. 1–selling EPs. The Shadows formed as a backing band for Cliff Richard under the name The Drifters . The original members were founder Ken Pavey (born 1932), Terry Smart on drums (1942), Norman Mitham on guitar (1941), Ian Samwell on guitar and Harry Webb (before he became Cliff Richard ) on guitar and vocals. They had no bass player. Samwell wrote their debut single, " Move It ", often mistakenly attributed to "Cliff Richard and

4171-619: The Shadows performed at the Royal Variety Performance , at the same time announcing their forthcoming 50th anniversary tour. The tour began in September 2009 with 36 shows throughout the UK and continental Europe, extending in 2010 to Australia , New Zealand and South Africa . A 'final reunion' of Cliff and the Shadows was performed in the O2 Arena in London in November 2009. This performance

4268-499: The Shadows released a double album on the Tellydisc label, titled Shadows Silver Album , which contained previously released recent material, along with new, recently recorded tracks. In July 1984, the Shadows reunited with Cliff Richard for a series of celebratory concerts at Wembley Arena and Birmingham NEC . In 1986, the Shadows had a top ten hit on the LP chart with Moonlight Shadows ,

4365-653: The Shadows used Olivia Newton-John on the track " The Day I Met Marie " on their album From Hank Bruce Brian and John . In October 1968, Marvin and Welch decided to disband the group following a concert at the London Palladium . In the event, only Welch left, but the Shadows had disbanded by the end of the year. The group began 1970 by appearing on the BBC 's review of the '60s music scene, Pop Go The Sixties , performing "Apache" and backing Richard on " Bachelor Boy ", broadcast across Europe and BBC1 , on 31 December 1969. This

4462-460: The Shadows" and not the Drifters. At the insistence of the group's producer and manager Norrie Paramor , in order to ensure a strong sound, two session players, guitarist Ernie Shear and bassist Frank Clark, played on the "Move It/Schoolboy Crush" single. Initially Paramor wanted to record using only studio musicians, but after persuasion he allowed Smart and Samwell to play as well. In his memoirs, Welch regrets that he and Marvin were not able to be at

4559-408: The UK charts until 1963 when Beatlemania arrived, combined with DJ indifference to non-vocal singles. The Ventures ' precise guitar work was a major influence on many later rock guitarists; they also helped shape surf music. The band reached chart success with songs such as " Walk-Don't Run " and "Hawaii Five-O". In the U.S. they greatly escalated the guitar instrumentals and use of the vibrato bar on

4656-430: The UK in 1960, about a year after band-mate Hank Marvin got his first red Fender Stratocaster guitar. Both instruments were eventually replaced with matching versions which were used in the film The Young Ones , in which The Shadows played "The Savage" (showing the famous Shadows' walk) to an invited audience of teenagers. Harris also contributed vocally, adding backup harmonies and occasional lead vocals. He had

4753-517: The Wildcats. So successful was this tour that Wilde repeated the invitation to join him on his 2010 Born to Rock and Roll tour, which finished in Basingstoke on 20 November. Harris said that this was his most enjoyable working experience in years. His fan club arranged a 70th birthday party for him on 5 July 2009, at the Winter Gardens , Weston-super-Mare . In 2010, Harris started working with

4850-486: The album after that, Songs for Sanity , which features guest appearances by Steve Vai and Albert Lee , became one of the top selling records on the record label Shrapnel. He followed this in 2007 with The Devil Knows My Name , which features Joe Satriani , Jim Root , and Eric Johnson . The 2000s saw a rise in the popularity of bands that have been labeled post-rock ; many of these bands have created instrumental rock songs. Constellation Records has released some of

4947-478: The back, and we were really impressed at the way the saxophone players moved in unison, taken, I suppose, from the Glenn Miller days. It looked fantastic and we thought, "We must do something like that because it looks so interesting from the front." The Shadows developed sequences using their bodies and guitars in tempo with the music, such as 'the walk'. It has been copied by other groups as part of their Top of

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5044-563: The band in 1976, moving to the US to become the music producer for Olivia Newton-John . (Among her hits, Farrar wrote " You're the One That I Want " from the film Grease which was covered by the Shadows in 1979, and " Suddenly ", from the film Xanadu , which was a popular duet between Newton-John and Cliff Richard). The packaging of hits in Twenty Golden Greats by EMI in 1977, which led to

5141-555: The bass guitar in Britain. He appeared annually at Bruce Welch 's 'Shadowmania' and toured backed by the Rapiers (a Shadows tribute band ). He recorded continuously from the late 1980s with a variety of collaborators, including Tangent, Alan Jones (also an ex-Shadows bassist), Bobby Graham and the Local Heroes. His previous problems with stage nerves had seemingly disappeared, and 2006 saw Harris' first single release in over forty years, "San Antonio". From 2005 to 2009, Harris achieved

5238-495: The bass player would walk back - and vice versa. During the late 1950s in the UK, it was a common practice for pop stars to adopt a stage name, and several members of the original Cliff Richard and the Shadows did so: Harry Webb became "Cliff Richard", Brian Rankin became "Hank B. Marvin", Terence Harris became "Jet Harris" and Bruce Cripps became "Bruce Welch". Subsequently, the names Cliff Richard and Hank Brian Marvin were confirmed by deed poll . Instrumental rock During

5335-667: The best-known examples of instrumental post-rock, such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Do Make Say Think . Other examples include Austin TV , Mogwai , The Cancer Conspiracy , the Mercury Program , 65daysofstatic , God Is An Astronaut , Russian Circles and Explosions in the Sky . Within the indie rock label, bands such as Ratatat and Delicate Steve are popular instrumental rock acts. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez 's solo albums typically are instrumental ( Old Money ) or mostly instrumental ( Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo ). In

5432-514: The black and white film Just for Fun , released in 1963. In the film, "Jet and the Jetblacks" played "Man From Nowhere", whilst the duo performed "(Doin' the) Hully Gully", a vocal track released as the b-side of their hit "Scarlett O'Hara". Harris was partly responsible for helping Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones break into the music business. Page's first major session was as a rhythm guitarist on "Diamonds" in late 1962. After "Diamonds" became

5529-553: The blues boogie inflected "Satch Boogie" — both staples for guitarists learning their craft. Satriani released a follow-up album, Flying in a Blue Dream , two years later. After Malmsteen left Alcatrazz , he was replaced by the extravagant Steve Vai , who had previously been playing with the Frank Zappa band. Continuing the tradition (and following a brief stint in David Lee Roth 's band from 1986 to 1988), Vai went on to release

5626-547: The charts. In October 1963, Locking left to spend more time as a Jehovah's Witness . Meanwhile, Harris and Meehan teamed up at Decca as an eponymous duo to record another Lordan instrumental, " Diamonds ". It rose to UK no. 1 in January 1963. Two further hits, " Scarlett O'Hara " (also by Lordan) and "Applejack", followed in the same year. On the Lordan tunes, Harris played lead using a six-stringed Fender Bass VI . During 1963, ironically

5723-509: The current Wildcats (Neville Marten and Eddie Allen on guitar, Roger Newell bass, and Bryan Fitzpatrick, drums). The show's finale featured the closest thing to a Shadows reunion possible, with Marvin, Welch, Harris, Locking and Brian Bennett (who in 1962 had replaced Tony Meehan, now deceased) all appearing on stage with the show's company. The evening was filmed, and a DVD released, with Harris playing three tunes – "Diamonds", "Theme For Something Really Important" and "Scarlett O'Hara" – backed by

5820-427: The early 1960s. This badge became the "default" band logo but was never commercially exploited by the group. The Shadows never used the logo on the front of the bass drum, preferring to allow Meehan and Bennett to use their names instead. Belatedly, the logo was used once on the front artwork of the 1975 original studio album Specs Appeal . As of 2009, the logo still remains untrademarked and uncopyrighted. In lieu of

5917-476: The ex-Shadows were competing in the charts with their former bandmates. It is perhaps also worth noting that Jet Harris also acquired himself a Burns guitar, only this time it was a Barracuda Bass. Jet Harris The Shadows, meanwhile, had issued a run of 13 consecutive top 10 UK hits from 1960 through 1963. The Shadows had met John Rostill on tour with other bands and had been impressed by his playing, so they invited him to join. This final and longest-lasting line-up

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6014-419: The fans, Cliff invited onto the stage former and classic-era members of the group Jet Harris and Tony Meehan to perform " Move It " with him and his band. On 30 June 1990, Cliff and the Shadows performed to an estimated 120,000 people at Knebworth Park as part of an all-star concert line-up that also included Paul McCartney , Phil Collins , Elton John and Tears for Fears . The concert in aid of charity

6111-507: The films The Young Ones , Summer Holiday , Wonderful Life , and Finders Keepers . They also appeared as marionettes in the Gerry Anderson film Thunderbirds Are GO , and starred in a short B-film called Rhythm 'n Greens which became the basis of a music book and an EP. They appeared in pantomime : Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp in 1964 at the London Palladium with Arthur Askey as Widow Twankey , Richard as Aladdin, and

6208-612: The first British exponents of the instrument. He played in several groups, including the British skiffle group. the Vipers Skiffle Group and with the Most Brothers (featuring future music producer Mickie Most ) In 1959, he joined Cliff Richard 's backing group, then known as "the Drifters", who, in July 1959 at a meeting in the Six Bells pub in Ruislip, changed their name to the Shadows at Harris's suggestion, in order to avoid

6305-505: The group also recorded occasional vocal numbers, and hit the UK top ten with the group-sung " Don't Make My Baby Blue " in 1965. Four other vocal songs by the Shadows also made the UK charts. They disbanded in 1968, but reunited in the 1970s for further commercial success. The Shadows are the fifth-most successful act on the UK Singles Chart , behind Elvis Presley , the Beatles , Cliff Richard and Madonna . The Shadows and Cliff Richard &

6402-721: The group came second to the Dutch entry, Teach-In 's " Ding-A-Dong ". Having long stepped out of Richard's shadow, this was a rare excursion into vocals for a band known for instrumentals (although they had cut vocal tracks on most albums, plus some singles 'B' sides, and had four charting vocal singles in the '60s). Welch sang lead and let the world know when, forgetting a couple of words, he turned to colleagues and said "I knew it" in range of his microphone. Author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor notes in The Eurovision Song Contest ;– The Official History that they were not

6499-478: The group signed a 10-year contract to Polydor Records . The first album released under the Polydor banner was the aptly titled Change of Address in September 1980. With the influential arrival of keyboardist Cliff Hall, the musical style shifted from the traditional sound, becoming more electronic-based, with prominent keyboards and synthesizers burying Welch's contributions. For the group's 25th anniversary in 1983,

6596-419: The group's third CD release. This top ten album consisted entirely of cover songs. The album spent 16 weeks on chart peaking at number 6. In June 1989, the Shadows once more reunited with Cliff to celebrate 30 years in show business, where the singer filled London's Wembley Stadium for two nights, with a spectacular titled "The Event", in front of a combined audience of 144,000 people. As a special surprise for

6693-591: The guitar-based instrumental " Albatross " in February 1969. Previously, only three other rock guitar instrumentals had cracked Billboard's top five: the Virtues' "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" in 1959, and Duane Eddy 's " Because They're Young " and the Ventures ' "Walk, Don't Run" in 1960. In August 1964, Checker Records released the album Two Great Guitars , recorded by rock and roll pioneers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley , which

6790-618: The guitar/guitar/bass/drums configuration, paving the way for the Ventures , the Shadows , and the surf music scene. The Fireballs were one of a few instrumental bands that successfully transitioned into vocal music, having the biggest hit of 1963 in the US (" Sugar Shack "). B Bumble & the Stingers gained hit " Nut Rocker ". The Shadows , from the UK , had several hit singles from 1960 onwards, including "Kon-Tiki" and " Apache ". The Shadows (alone and accompanying Cliff Richard ) featured heavily in

6887-520: The late 1960s and 1970s with their explosive instrumental output that merged rock, jazz, classical and heavy metal styles, though their albums also included songs with vocals, Genesis also had multiple instrumental parts in their long songs, and when Peter Gabriel left the band the drummer Phil Collins suggested continuing as an instrumental act, but the other members didn't like the idea. Alan Parsons Project had instrumentals on every album, especially on early releases. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield ,

6984-488: The late 1960s. During the 1970s, EMI dropped the silhouettes, preferring to use two guitar necks or colour photos of the Shadows. During the later 1980s, Polydor used a red Fender Stratocaster (with white scratch plate) as a symbol. In 1958, Bruce Welch went to a concert as part of the 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis tour of the UK of which he said: On the show was this black American band called the Treniers . Hank Marvin and I were at

7081-470: The late 2000s a new style of heavy metal called djent emerged. Some of the leading bands in the scene such as Animals as Leaders are instrumental acts, while many others started as instrumental acts before later acquiring vocalists. A number of Math Rock artists, such as Toe , mainly use instrumentals in their music without many vocals and are thus instrumental acts. Jet Harris Terence " Jet " Harris MBE (6 July 1939 – 18 March 2011)

7178-406: The latter featuring a cover of Charles Mingus 's jazz standard " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ". Several progressive rock and art rock performers of the 1960s and 1970s featured virtuosic instrumental performances (and occasional instrumental songs), but many of their compositions also featured vocals. Early 70s, EL&P gained cover hit "Nut Rocker". King Crimson gained a massive cult following in

7275-606: The lead guitar. Surf music was quite popular in the early 1960s, and was generally rather simple and melodic—one exception being Dick Dale , who gained fame for his quick playing, often influenced by the music of the Middle East , and frequently using exotic scales . Around the time of the British Invasion, rock changed appreciably, and instrumental hits came mostly from the R&;B world. Notable artists include Booker T. &

7372-441: The main reason. The core members from 1958 to the present are guitarists Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch and drummer Brian Bennett (who has been with the group since 1961) with various bassists and occasionally keyboardists through the years. The Shadows' number-one hits include " Apache ", " Kon-Tiki ", " Wonderful Land ", " Foot Tapper " and " Dance On! ". Although these and most of their best-remembered hits were instrumentals,

7469-483: The plaque, various musicians took part in a performance in Harris' memory, including Mike Berry, Clem Cattini of The Tornados , bassist Mo Foster, guitarist Daniel Martin and Harris' backing group the Shadowers. Tributes were read by Bruce Welch and Marty Wilde. Brian "Licorice" Locking could not attend but a few days earlier had made a live recording of a dedicated harmonica performance of Andrea Bocelli 's "The Prayer", which

7566-625: The rise of grunge , guitar-orientated instrumental rock of the type popular in the 1980s became less popular, and there were few artists who continued to thrive in that style. There have been many new releases of instrumental rock albums in the 2000s. The majority of the popular performers from the 1980s have made rejuvenated and generally well-received comebacks, with a revitalized sound apparent on their recent releases. Artists such as Steve Morse, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Ron Jarzombek and Joe Satriani have continued releasing instrumental rock music and touring with success. Les Fradkin has popularized

7663-401: The start of making history with "Move It". The Drifters signed for Jack Good's Oh Boy! television series. Paramor of EMI signed Richard, and asked Johnny Foster to recruit a better guitarist. Foster went to Soho 's 2i's coffee bar , known for musical talent performing there, particularly in skiffle , in search of guitarist Tony Sheridan . Sheridan was not there but Foster's attention

7760-657: The time. Harris said of the Rapiers' lead guitarist Colin Pryce Jones: "He is on a par with Hank Marvin." In 2007, Harris was invited by UK singer Marty Wilde to be a special guest on his 50th Anniversary tour. This culminated in an evening at the London Palladium , with other guests including Wilde's daughters Kim and Roxanne, Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues and original Wildcats members Big Jim Sullivan , Brian "Licorice" Locking and Brian Bennett , who joined Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch of The Shadows on stage with Wilde and

7857-579: The video cut into the weekly show. For the presentation of the songs on week seven and the announcement of the result on week eight, the pre-recorded performances were run again. Two of the songs ("No, No Nina" and "This House Runs on Sunshine") were co-written by members of the group. The public voted for " Let Me Be the One ", composed by Paul Curtis , to go to the Eurovision final in Stockholm , Sweden in 1975. There,

7954-524: Was a heavy smoker and died on 18 March 2011, two years after being diagnosed with throat cancer , at the home of his partner Janet Hemingway, in Winchester . In 2012, The Heritage Foundation erected a blue plaque in his memory at the Kingswood Centre, Honeypot Lane, Kingsbury , on the site of the former Kingsbury Maternity Hospital where he was born. At the luncheon that followed the unveiling of

8051-454: Was a technical break-through in regards to what could be achieved in the field of guitar composition. This was followed up by the 1995 trio album Alien Love Secrets and Fire Garden , released a year after. In 1995, Michael Angelo Batio of Nitro released his CD No Boundaries , which began his solo career. His albums predominantly feature instrumental rock, but have occasionally featured vocals by himself and other vocalists. During

8148-594: Was also documented in The Story of the Shadows , written by the group with Read). After leaving the Shadows, he signed a contract with Decca and released solo instrumental and vocal work with some success, "Besame Mucho" and " The Man with the Golden Arm " featuring a Fender VI six-string bass guitar. In late 1962 he was voted 'top instrumentalist' in the readers' poll of the New Musical Express . Then, as part of

8245-472: Was an English rock and roll musician. He was an original member of Cliff Richard 's backing band the Shadows , serving as the bass guitarist from the group's inception until April 1962, after which he had success as a soloist and as a duo with that band's drummer Tony Meehan . Terence Harris , the only child of Bill and Winifred Harris, was born at Kingsbury Maternity Hospital, Honeypot Lane, Kingsbury , North West London , England. His prowess as

8342-509: Was caught by Hank Marvin, who played guitar well and wore Buddy Holly -style glasses. In spring of 1959, the owner of the United States vocal group The Drifters threatened legal action over naming rights after the release and immediate withdrawal of "Feelin Fine" in the US. The second single, "Jet Black", was released in the States under the name of The Four Jets to avoid further legal aggravation, but

8439-544: Was followed by Marvin and a reconstituted Shadows becoming resident guests on Richard's debut TV series for the BBC, It's Cliff Richard! In July 1970, Australian musician John Farrar moved to Britain and was invited to become a member of Marvin, Welch & Farrar . By that time, Olivia Newton-John and Welch had become engaged, and Farrar and Welch became two of her songwriters and producers. While The Shadows were famous for their instrumental work, Marvin, Welch & Farrar were

8536-466: Was known for intermixing instrumental rock tracks with his novelty songs on his albums. The jazz rock of the 1970s often had considerable stylistic cross-over with rock with groups such as Colosseum, Soft Machine , Nucleus, Brand X , Chicago , Chase, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Affinity. Surf rock's "2nd Wave" began in the late 1970s with the release of Edie & the Hot Rods' first single. During

8633-540: Was most popular during rock and roll 's first decade (mid-1950s to mid-1960s), before the British Invasion . One notable early instrumental was "Honky Tonk" by the Bill Doggett Combo , with its slinky beat and sinuous saxophone-organ lead. Jazz musicians who scored pop hits include Earl Bostic and Arnett Cobb . Several rhythm and blues sax players had hit instrumental songs, including Big Jay McNeeley, Red Prysock , and Lee Allen , whose "Walking with Mr. Lee"

8730-569: Was quite popular. There were several notable blues instrumental songs during the 1950s; Little Walter 's rollicking "Juke" was a #1 R&B hit. Instrumental hit songs could emphasize electronic organ ( the Tornados ' " Telstar ", Dave "Baby" Cortez 's "The Happy Organ", Johnny & the Hurricanes ' "Red River Rock"), or the saxophone ( the Champs ' "Tequila", Bill Black's Combo 's "Don't Be Cruel",

8827-445: Was refined to include another movement. This featured Marvin, Welch and the bassist moving their guitars in time, or in sequence, with note or chord changes. Occasionally, during other instrumentals, this guitar presentation is re-engineered with Marvin and Welch acting out of sequence or alternating. When the group performed the popular live number "Shadoogie" (originally a track on their first LP), Hank and Bruce would walk forward whilst

8924-635: Was released in September. In December 2004, each of the then-current members of the Shadows was offered an appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), but Marvin declined. The group reformed in 2004 for a farewell tour, and recorded "Life Story" (written by Lordan) to accompany a hits package of the same name which featured 1980s re-recordings of all their 1960s and 1970s hits. This opportunity to see Marvin, Welch and Bennett, joined on keyboards by Cliff Hall and on bass by Mark Griffiths ,

9021-550: Was successful enough that they extended the tour to continental Europe in 2005. The line-up was almost the same, except that Warren Bennett , son of Brian played the keyboards instead of Hall. Marvin, Welch and Bennett appeared together as special guests at Marty Wilde 's 50th anniversary concert at the London Palladium on 27 May 2007, performing "Move It" with Wilde on vocals. The concert also featured former Shadows Jet Harris and Brian Locking. On 11 December 2008, Richard and

9118-479: Was televised around the world and helped to raise $ 10.5 million for disabled children and young musicians. Brian Bennett resigned from the group just before the group were to embark on what would be their final tour for 14 years, with Marvin, Welch and Bennett going their separate ways on 1 December following the final concert in Southampton. The last studio album the Shadows recorded before they disbanded, Reflection ,

9215-399: Was the most innovative as they tried different guitars and developed a wider range of styles and higher musicianship. They produced albums but the chart positions of singles began to ease. The line-up still had ten hits, the first and most successful of which was " The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt ". Beginning in 1965, the group also started issuing vocal numbers as singles, usually alternating

9312-603: Was the only time the three Shadows bass guitarists would ever perform together. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours. In 2010, Harris was presented with a special award from the US Fender guitar company for his services to their company in effectively launching their bass guitar in the UK in 1960. Harris had five sons and a daughter. He resided in Bembridge , Isle of Wight . He

9409-509: Was this line-up that reunited with Cliff Richard for two concerts at the London Palladium in March 1978. Highlights of the concert, including four solo Shadows tracks, were released the following year on the top ten charting album Thank You Very Much . On the back of this, The Shadows recorded an instrumental version of " Don't cry for me Argentina " from the West End production " Evita ", released as

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