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He teamed again with Harris (who had also left the Shadows and moved to Decca) and as a duo had success with the instrumental "Diamonds" which also included Jimmy Page on acoustic rhythm guitar. "Diamonds" was a number one hit in the UK. Harris and Meehan had two further hit singles together – "Scarlett O'Hara" and "Applejack". [1]
Terence "Jet" Harris MBE (6 July 1939 – 18 March 2011) 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 .
Harris was later found hiding in Brighton on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Whilst Harris and Meehan did not release anymore singles together, the band that had actually played on "Scarlett O'Hara" and "Applejack" would go on to release one further single, "Son of Mexico", solely under Meehan's name, which peaked at number 39 on the charts. [5]
The grieving mother of a teenage boy has described the harrowing moment her son died in her arms after a brutal knife attack near their home in Bristol.. Riley Tolliver, 18, Kodishai Wescott, 17 ...
In April 1962, whilst having just started performing with Adam Faith, at Bennett's suggestion, Locking was himself invited to join The Shadows to replace the departing bassist Jet Harris. Stylistically, Locking had a solid "less is more" approach, which was the obverse of Harris's adventurous hard-driving style. The Shadows' sound changed as a ...
A concerned father is pleading for help from the public in the ongoing search for his son, a Texas A&M University student who vanished more than two weeks ago.. Caleb Harris, 21, was last seen in ...
The oldest son was played by Tim Considine, now 78 years old. Considine grew up in the entertainment industry; not only was his father was an Oscar-nominated producer, but his grandfather was a ...
In 1963, the year in which popular music was transformed by the rise of The Beatles, Davis left Decca records owing to financial disagreements. In September of that year she suffered a broken jaw when a chauffeur-driven limousine [7] in which she and Jet Harris, former bass guitarist of the Shadows, were returning from a concert in Worcester, [8] crashed in the West Midlands.