AN AUDIENCE WITH HANK MARVIN
The Shadows in 1961: (l-r) Bruce Welch, Jet Harris, Tony Meehan and Hank Marvin
JAKE ROTHAM; RB/REDFERNS; PA IMAGES / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
HANK Marvin doesn’t have many regrets, but there is one that still niggles. In i960, The Shadows sparked an electric guitar revolution when they topped the UK charts with Jerry Lordan’s “Apache”. Yet their US label declined to promote the single, reasoning that the band were simply copying American rock’n’roll. Instead, it was Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann who grabbed the glory stateside with his opportunistic cover version, and by the time the British invasion eventually did happen, the Shads were old news.