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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 .
Jul 2, 2015 · ‘Who was Jet Harris?’, most of you will ask. Well, the quick answer is that he was the bass player in The Shadows, backing British rock and roll perennial Cliff Richard in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before easing into an equally successful solo career. In 1963, his annus mirabilis, he was earning an extraordinary £2,000 a week.
Mar 19, 2011 · Jet Harris was with the Shadows from 1958 to 1962, a period that found the Shads blazing trails for instrumental rock as well as backing burgeoning star Cliff Richard (who had American chart ...
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Diamonds (1963).
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Mar 19, 2011 · Born in 1939, Terence Harris was born in Kingsbury and raised in Willesden, the only child of Bill and Winifred Harris. Because he was a good athlete, his schoolfriends named him "Jet".
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Mar 18, 2011 · Jet Harris, the original bass player with The Shadows, has died of cancer aged 71. The guitarist, who played on number one hits including Apache, died at his partner's home in Winchester, his ...
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Mar 18, 2011 · British musician Jet Harris, who played bass guitar in Cliff Richard's band The Shadows, has died aged 71, British media reported on Friday.
