Recently, the legendary English band called The Shadows just marked their 60th anniversary.
To celebrate, the band decided to reunite once more to take their fans for a trip to the world of nostalgia.
For those who don’t know, The Shadows have a long history as a successful instrumental band.
The band was formerly known as The Drifters and they worked as a backing band for the British singer, Cliff Richard.
With that, eventually, they were known as Cliff Richards and The Shadows. The band originally consisted of four members namely, lead guitarist Hank B. Marvin, rhythm guitarist Bruce, bassist Jet Harris and drummer Tony Meehan. Later members included drummer Brian Bennett and bassist John Rostill.
Even though they worked behind the spotlight for years, the band found their opportunity to emerge as stars.
The band became the pioneer of the four-member instrumental group and was able to release at least 35 instrumental singles that paved their way to success. Eventually, the group changed their name from The Drifters to what they are currently known, The Shadows.
After 60 years, the band came back together so they could share their story with the world!
Sixty years have gone by but for the band’s 60th anniversary, they decided to meet up and celebrate.
BBC Four helped to set up their reunion and document the story of how they came to be. “We’re gonna go on all our yesterdays,” Bruce Welch told Brian Bennet as they crossed each other on the street for a shoot with BBC for their documentary called The Shadows at Sixty.
Featuring Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett and Sir Cliff Richard, the BBC documentary encompasses their story as a band while enumerating every hardship they had in their milestones together.
Furthermore, as they take us for a trip down memory lane, they also play some music together.
One of the songs they played was one of their best-selling hits.
In the documentary, Welch and Bennet revisited the places they previously worked at.
They visited their old studio and were surprised to see how much it had changed.
All the same, they were still able to pinpoint some notable features and placements that they recognized.
According to them, it was a treat for them as they felt like they were traveling through time. They set up their stage and decided to perform one of the band’s pride and joy, the song “Apache.”
They also took time telling the story of how “Apache” got them their ladder to success.
When “Apache” was first released, none of The Shadows expected that it was going to reach the number one spot—in fact, they only expected the song to be a hit.
“Apache” was one of the hits that topped the charts along with their instrumental hits “Kon-Tiki,” “Wonderful Land,” “Foot Tapper” and “Dance On.” Moreover, the documentary stated that “Apache” stayed at the number one spot for five whole weeks in many countries.
Though the members of the legendary instrumental band wore silver hair on their heads, their music remains golden in everyone’s hearts!
The nostalgic Wild West scenery behind them as they play their instruments is a perfect backdrop to their sound!
For fans of the band, we recommend watching their whole documentary on BBC Four—and don’t forget to share this gem with everyone you know!
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