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Mar 18, 2023 · The Shadows (L-R): Jet Harris with Britain's first Fender Precision, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Tony Meehan, c.1960/1961 (Image credit: Paul Naylor/Getty) At The Cavern in Liverpool, Harris fell off the stage during a performance of Shadoogie. “Smashed out of his head,” said Bruce Welch. “As Hank helped him up and back onto the stage, I ...
Jul 2, 2015 · Alone most of the time with a new baby, she turned to the virginal Cliff for comfort and it blossomed into a full blown affair. When his strict parents found out, they insisted he end the relationship immediately lest the public find out he was romancing a married woman. A bit of a career-ender that in 1960.
Jet was a small, balding, spaced out, and tipsy man who struggled on bass through most of their act. His lead guitarist did all the Shadows and Ventures leads. The highlight of the show was when Jet Harris eventually ended the set by playing "Diamonds" & "Rhythm and Greens" -- on a terribly out-of-tune Stratocaster.
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 .
Mar 19, 2011 · Harris backed the rock'n'roll novelty singers, Wee Willie Harris and Larry Page ("the teenage rave"), and he would gravitate to the Two I's coffee bar in Old Compton Street looking for work.
- Spencer Leigh
Mar 19, 2011 · Bassist Jet Harris was arguably the crux of the Shadows’ highly influential style, as he was one of the first people in rock music to play echo-laden, melodic bass lines that were as essential ...
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With his mean and moody look, Jet Harris was the James Dean of British rock ‘n’ roll. But he was much more than a pretty face. In the late 1950s and early 60s, Jet’s bass work provided the solid backbone to a string of Cliff Richard hits during the three years before Cliff became a sugar-coated family entertainer.
