S1E23: Hank Marvin

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Guy and Gary speak welcome the guitar hero’s guitar hero, Hank Marvin, a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter, known as lead guitarist for the Shadows. Hank Marvin takes us through his career, legends he’s met and worked with throughout the years.

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0:00.0	It's the big one, Gary. Yeah, yeah, what is he? He's the he is the guitar heroes hero the daddy of British guitar.
0:08.0	I mean if you if you ask any of the big guitarist from the 70s, you know you're Gilmours and your townsends and whoever, they'll all say one man, Hank Marvin.
0:17.0	And if you go through, you will see, I don't think there's practically no guitarists who you can't find a photo of playing a red strap at some point.
0:26.1	And of course he has the first red strap to ever come into the country.
0:30.8	We think he has it. Maybe he doesn't have it anymore. He might not have it. We also are not quite sure what the color is.
0:37.2	The official color. Yeah, but you know, let's you know people do forget about about the shadows and the cliff and
0:43.5	cliff region in the shadows and how they were the first British rock and roll
0:46.6	band and we are here today to discover that story.
0:50.6	Welcome to the rock on turs.
0:56.0	Okay guys, I'm ready. But it's a big tune for sure.
0:57.0	I actually wrote that originally for Tina Turner.
1:00.0	Of course I had gone and found Joanie Mitchell in Florida and brought her back.
1:03.2	You know, what people forget about Bowie is that he was such a kind man.
1:07.6	Remember me?
1:08.8	I'm in a band now.
1:09.8	It's called Roxy Music.
1:11.6	You know this thing about the 10,000 hours of experience?
1:14.6	Oh yeah, that's good at something.
1:16.4	When we recorded Arnold Lane, we'd done about 50 hours.
1:19.6	The Rock Onters Podcast with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt.
1:23.4	Hank.
1:24.4	Hello, Hank, can you hear us?
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