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(‘manchester’)
(‘MEN’ –> “manchester evening news”)
(“18 OCTOBER 2009”)
(a ‘sunday’)
(what time?)
(‘timestamp’ on camera?)
(where is the ‘camera’ that ‘took’ this photo?)
(what was its ‘fate’?)
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CURRENT MEMBERS:
(from ‘left’ to ‘right’ in title pic)
“WARREN BENNETT”
(keyboards)
(born ‘4 july 1962’)
(son of drummer ‘brian bennett’)
(‘age 47’ in ‘title pic’)
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“BRUCE WELCH”
((‘rhythm’? guitar)
(born ‘2 november 1941’)
(‘age 67’ in ‘title pic’)
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“MARK GRIFFITHS”
(bass)
(birthday?)
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“BRIAN BENNETT”
(drums)
(born ‘9 february 1940’)
(father of keyboardist ‘warren bennett’)
(‘age 22’ on warren’s ‘birth date’)
(‘age 69’ in ‘title pic’)
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“HANK MARVIN”
(lead guitar)
(born ’28 october 1941′)
(‘age 68’ in ‘title pic’)
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(“the shadows” are a british ‘instrumental rock group’, and were cliff richard’s ‘backing band’ from ‘1958’ to ‘1968’, (though they have collaborated again on numerous ‘reunion tours’))
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(“proto” ‘bob dylan’ and ‘the band’)
(or ‘linda ronstadt’ and ‘the eagles’)
(‘hank marvin’ as british instrumental incarnation of ‘buddy holly’)
(“no…really…”)
(the archetype passed down to weezer’s ‘rivers cuomo’)
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(“the shadows” have placed 69 ‘UK charted singles’ from the ‘1950s’ to the ‘2000s’, 35 credited to ‘the shadows’ and 34 to “‘cliff richard’ and “the shadows”)
(the group (who were in the forefront of the ‘UK beat-group boom’) were the first ‘backing band’ to emerge as ‘stars’ (‘in their own right’))
(*cue ‘ezra koenig’ playing saxophone for ‘the dirty projectors’*)
(as ‘pioneers’ of the ‘4-member instrumental format’, the band consisted of ‘lead guitar’, ‘rhythm guitar’, ‘bass guitar’, and ‘drums’)
(their range covers ‘pop’, ‘rock’, ‘surf rock’, and ‘ballads’ with a ‘jazz influence’)
(the ‘core members’ are ‘hank marvin’, ‘bruce welch’, and ‘brian bennett’)
(the sound was produced by ‘fender’ and ‘burns’ guitars, amplifiers by ‘vox’, and ‘echo units’ (‘meazzi echomatic tape’ + ‘binson magnetic disc’))
(“the shadows” (with ‘cliff richard) dominated ‘british popular music’ in the ‘late 1950s’ and ‘early 1960s’ in the years before ‘the beatles’)
(although they ‘lost ground’ in the ‘late ’60s’, the band had a second success from the ‘late ’70s’)
(‘the shadows’ are the 3rd-most successful act in the ‘UK singles chart’)
(behind ‘elvis presley” + ‘cliff richard’)
(‘the shadows’ and ”cliff richard’ & ‘the shadows'” each have had 4 “#1 selling EPs)
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*WIKILINK*
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