The Shadows are a British instrumental rock group, and backing band for Cliff Richard (as Cliff Richard and The Shadows), with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 of which are credited as the Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and the Shadows, from the 1950s to the 2000s. The group, who were in the forefront of the UK's beat-group boom, were the first backing band to emerge as stars in their own right. As pioneers of the four-member instrumental format, the band consisted of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums. Their wide stylistic range covers pop, rock, surf rock, and ballads with a jazz influence.The Shadows' core members are Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett; though there have been numerous changes of personnel throughout its history. The band's unique sound was originally produced by a combination of American Fender guitars, British amplifiers made by Vox and echo units Meazzi Echomatic tape and Binson magnetic disc. The Shadows, with singer Cliff Richard, dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the five years before the Beatles. Although they lost ground in the late sixties, the band enjoyed a second spell of success and interest from the late seventies until the present day.The Shadows are the third most successful UK charted hit-singles act behind Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard. The Shadows and Cliff Richard & the Shadows each have had four No.1 selling EPs.
writer: "Finders Keepers", "Time Drags By", "Washer Woman", "La La La Song", "My Way", "Wonderful Life", "Oh Senorita"
Swingers' Paradise
1964
performer: "A Girl in Every Port", "A Little Imagination", "Walkin'", "On The Beach", "We Love a Movie", "What've I Gotta Do", "Do You Remember", "All Kinds of People", "A Matter of Moments", "Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture" uncredited
Wonderful to Be Young!
1961
performer: "We Say Yeah", "Peace Pipe", "The Savage", "The Young Ones"
Serious Charge
1959
as "Mad", The Drifters, "Living Doll", "Mad About You" , "No Turning Back" / performer: "Chinchilla" Theme - as The Drifters
Music Department
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Year
Status
Character
Pulaski: The TV Detective
1987
TV Series performers - 8 episodes
The Boys
1962
music performers
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sounds of the Sixties
2007
TV Mini-Series
Swingers' Paradise
1964
The Shadows
Summer Holiday
1963
The Shadows
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rhythm 'n' Greens
1964
Short
The Boys
1962
Self
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Year
Status
Character
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
2009
TV Series
Themselves
GMTV
2004
TV Series
Themselves
Live from Her Majesty's
1987
TV Series
Themselves
TROS TV Show
1983
TV Series documentary
Themselves
Saturday Night at the Mill
1981
TV Series
Themselves
Musikladen
1981
TV Series
Themselves
London Night Out
1980
TV Series
Themselves
The Marti Caine Show
1980
TV Series
Themselves
Top of the Pops
1979-1980
TV Series
Themselves
Cliff Richard and the Shadows - Thank You Very Much
1980
TV Movie documentary
Themselves
Get It Together
1978
TV Series
Themselves - Guests
All You Need Is Love
1977
TV Series documentary
Themselves
45
1975
TV Series
Themselves
Numéro 1
1975
TV Series
Themselves
Lift Off
1972
TV Series
Themselves-as Marvin.Welch & Farrah
Pop Go the Sixties!
1969
TV Movie
Themselves
Showtime
1968
TV Series
Themselves
Europarty
1967
TV Series
Themselves
London, Beat-Report
1967
TV Movie documentary
Themselves - Musician
The Blackpool Show
1967
TV Series
Themselves
Thunderbirds Are GO
1966
Themselves (uncredited)
BBC Show of the Week
1966
TV Series
Themselves
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1961-1966
TV Series
Themselves
The New London Palladium Show
1965
TV Series
Themselves
Cliff!
1964-1965
TV Series
Themselves
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium