Bruce Welch, the Glossary
Bruce Welch (born 2 November 1941 as Bruce Cripps) is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a founding member of the Shadows.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: Backup band, BBC News, Bognor Regis, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Charlie Chester, Chester-le-Street, Cliff Richard, Columbia Graphophone Company, County Durham, EMI, Every Face Tells a Story, Foot Tapper, Green Light (Cliff Richard album), Hamish Hamilton, Hank Marvin, I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You), I Love You (Cliff Richard song), I'm Nearly Famous, If Not for You (album), In the Country, Instrumental rock, Jet Harris, Marvin, Welch & Farrar, Newcastle upon Tyne, Olivia (Olivia Newton-John album), Olivia Newton-John, Omnibus Press, Order of the British Empire, Pete Chester, Please Don't Tease, Please Mr. Please, Richmond, London, Roger Whittaker, Skiffle, Summer Holiday (song), Sussex, The Album (Cliff Richard album), The Daily Telegraph, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt, The Shadows, The Shadows discography, Theme for Young Lovers, Tyne and Wear, Tyneside, Virgin Books, We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard song), 2004 Birthday Honours.
- People from Bognor Regis
- Skiffle musicians
- The Shadows members
Backup band
A backup band or backing band is a musical ensemble that typically accompanies a single artist who is the featured performer.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis, also known as Bognor, is a town and seaside resort in West Sussex on the south coast of England, south-west of London, west of Brighton, south-east of Chichester and east of Portsmouth.
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Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story is a musical in two acts written by Alan Janes, and featuring the music of Buddy Holly.
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Charlie Chester
Charlie Chester MBE (26 April 1914 – 26 June 1997) was an English comedian, radio and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s.
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Chester-le-Street
Chester-le-Street is a market town in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England.
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Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor. Bruce Welch and Cliff Richard are the Shadows members.
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Columbia Graphophone Company
Columbia Graphophone Co.
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County Durham
County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
Every Face Tells a Story
Every Face Tells a Story is the nineteenth studio album by Cliff Richard.
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"Foot Tapper" is an instrumental by British guitar group the Shadows, released as a single in February 1963.
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Green Light (Cliff Richard album)
Green Light is the 21st studio album by Cliff Richard, released in September 1978.
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Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas, James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).
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Hank Marvin
Hank Brian Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin, 28 October 1941) is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. Bruce Welch and Hank Marvin are English male guitarists, English rock guitarists and the Shadows members.
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I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)
"I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)" is a song by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, released as a single in November 1964 from their album ''Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp''.
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I Love You (Cliff Richard song)
"I Love You" is the fourth UK number-one hit single (and the second of the 1960s) by Cliff Richard and the Shadows.
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I'm Nearly Famous
I'm Nearly Famous is the eighteenth studio album by Cliff Richard, released in May 1976.
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If Not for You (album)
If Not for You is the debut studio album by British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released in November 1971 by Festival Records.
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In the Country
In the Country (initiated in 2003 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz trio comprising pianist Morten Qvenild, bassist Roger Arntzen and drummer Pål Hausken.
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Instrumental rock
Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes instrumental performance and features very little or no singing.
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Jet Harris
Terence "Jet" Harris (6 July 1939 – 18 March 2011) was an English rock and roll musician. Bruce Welch and Jet Harris are the Shadows members.
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Marvin, Welch & Farrar
Marvin, Welch & Farrar (MWF) were a 1970s British and Australian popular music group formed by Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, both members of The Shadows – as a change of direction manoeuvre during 1970 to 1973 – and John Farrar (ex-The Strangers).
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Olivia (Olivia Newton-John album)
Olivia (released in Continental Europe as Olivia Newton-John) is the second studio album by the British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released in 1972.
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Olivia Newton-John
Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British and Australian singer and actress.
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Omnibus Press
Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.
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Pete Chester
Peter Charles 'Pete' Chester (born 9 September 1941) is an English drummer and songwriter. Bruce Welch and Pete Chester are English male songwriters.
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Please Don't Tease
"Please Don't Tease" is a 1960 song recorded by Cliff Richard and the Shadows.
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Please Mr. Please
"Please Mr.
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Richmond, London
Richmond is a town in south-west London,The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough.
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Roger Whittaker
Roger Henry Brough Whittaker (22 March 1936 – 13 September 2023) was a Kenyan-born British singer-songwriter and musician. Bruce Welch and Roger Whittaker are English male guitarists.
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Skiffle
Skiffle is a genre of folk music with influences from American folk music, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, generally performed with a mixture of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.
Summer Holiday (song)
"Summer Holiday" is a song recorded by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, written by rhythm guitarist Bruce Welch and drummer Brian Bennett.
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Sussex
Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.
The Album (Cliff Richard album)
The Album is the 31st studio album by English singer Cliff Richard.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.
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The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt
"The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt" is an instrumental by British group the Shadows.
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The Shadows
The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters between 1958 and 1959) were an English instrumental rock group, who dominated the British popular music charts in the pre-Beatles era from the late 1950s to the early 1960s.
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The Shadows discography
The solo discography of British rock group the Shadows consists of 21 studio albums, five live albums, 25 EPs and 67 singles.
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Theme for Young Lovers
"Theme for Young Lovers" is an instrumental by British group the Shadows, released as a single in February 1964.
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Tyne and Wear
Tyne and Wear is a ceremonial county in North East England.
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Tyneside
Tyneside is a built-up area across the banks of the River Tyne in Northern England.
Virgin Books
Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.
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We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff Richard song)
"We Don't Talk Anymore" is a song recorded by Cliff Richard, written by Alan Tarney and produced by the Shadows' rhythm guitarist, Bruce Welch.
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2004 Birthday Honours
The Birthday Honours 2004 for the Commonwealth realms were announced on 11 June 2004 for the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the Cook Islands and elsewhere to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 2004.
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See also
People from Bognor Regis
- Alan David (singer)
- Albert Sammons
- Alison Griffiths (politician)
- Andy Woon
- Arthur David Torlesse
- Bruce Welch
- Carola Hicks
- Clifford Ellis
- Cynthia Payne
- David Purley
- Derek Bell (racing driver)
- Dick Richards (cricketer)
- Edward Morris (historian)
- Elizabeth Jenner
- Eric Berry Edney
- Ernest Joyce
- Ian Powe
- Jeremy Groome
- John Snow (cricketer)
- John Watson (racing driver)
- Jonathan Ansell
- Julian Rathbone
- Kill Kenada
- Krafty Kuts
- Mary Wheatland
- Max Arthur
- Michael J. Belton
- Peter Cundy
- Peter Marshall (author)
- Raffertie
- Richard Kentfield
- Robert Smith (musician)
- Robert Waddington (priest)
- Russell Drysdale
- Steven Connor
- Tubbo
- Walter Parry Haskett Smith
Skiffle musicians
- Alun Davies (guitarist)
- Bruce Welch
- Chas McDevitt
- Chris Barber
- Clinton Ford (singer)
- Colin Hanton
- Dan Burley
- Ferre Grignard
- Hylda Sims
- Ivan Vaughan
- Jimmy Page
- John Lowe (musician)
- Johnny Duncan (bluegrass musician)
- Ken Colyer
- Len Garry
- Lonnie Donegan
- Nancy Whiskey
- Rod Davis (musician)
- Rory Gallagher
- Tommy Steele
- Van Morrison
- Wally Whyton
The Shadows members
- Alan Hawkshaw
- Alan Tarney
- Brian Bennett
- Brian Locking
- Bruce Welch
- Cliff Richard
- Hank Marvin
- Ian Samwell
- Jet Harris
- John Farrar
- John Rostill
- Mark Griffiths (musician)
- Tony Meehan
- Warren Bennett (musician)