A Son of the Rock

The Shadows were a bit before my time though they were a kind of Saturday night variety televisual backdrop to my childhood.

But I do know that they were important and that without them there might have been no Beatles, no Clapton, no Jeff Beck, Peter Green, Jimmy Page etc etc.*

It’s only right to mention, then, the passing of bassist Jet Harris.

Terence (Jet) Harris. 6/7/1939 -18/3/2011. So it goes.

*This is maybe overstating the case a little as some of these might have come to prominence anyway but there is more than a grain of truth in it.