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Bruce Cripps (born 2 November 1941), known professionally as Bruce Welch, is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a founding member of the Shadows. [ 1 ] Early life
The second single, "Jet Black", was released in the States under the name of The Four Jets to avoid further legal aggravation, but 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.
Brian Bennett, Bruce Welch and Warren Bennett at a concert in Brussels in 2005. Brian Laurence Bennett (born 9 February 1940 [1]) is an English drummer, pianist, composer and producer of popular music. He is best known as the drummer of the UK rock and roll group the Shadows. He is the father of musician and Shadows band member Warren Bennett. [2]
Marvin, Welch & Farrar (a.k.a. MWF) were a 1970s British and Australian popular music group formed by Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, both members of The Shadows – as a change of direction manoeuvre during 1970 to 1973 – and John Farrar (ex-The Strangers). The distinction was that while The Shadows were famous for their instrumental work ...
Don't Talk to Him (Bruce Welch, Cliff Richard) Time Drags By (Marvin, Welch, Rostill, Bennett) Gee Whizz It's You (Hank Marvin, Pete Chester) Lucky Lips (Leiber and Stoller) Singing the Blues *single (Melvin Endsley) The limited edition 2-CD set also includes: [1] I'm the Lonely One (Gordon Mills) A Girl Like You (Jerry Lordan) I Love You ...
John Clifford Farrar (/ ˈ f ɑː r ər / FAR-ər; born 8 November 1946) is an Australian music producer, songwriter, arranger, singer, and guitarist.As a musician, Farrar is a former member of several rock and roll groups including The Mustangs (1963–64), The Strangers (1964–70), Marvin, Welch & Farrar (1970–73), and The Shadows (1973–76).
In 1959, Welch visited Chester and asked him if he had any songs as everybody was song writing at the time. They went through his list of songs and found "Please Don't Tease", which Chester had just written, and they worked on it together. [citation needed] Welch eventually sang it to Cliff Richard who recorded it. It went to number one for ...
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