S5E4: Bruce Welch
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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This week on Rockonteurs we welcome British rock n’ roll royalty to the show, founding member of The Shadows, the one and only Bruce Welch. Chatting to Guy and Gary about the explosion of 50s and 60s pop and rock, he takes us from skiffle to The Shadows and that famous red strat!!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Guy, another shadow. |
| 0:03.0 | Another shadow, unlike us who are merely shadows of our former selves. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, you do look like you've got eyes shadow on. |
| 0:09.0 | I mean, let's, for all the people who can't see you, which is everybody. Let's just tell them what I'm looking |
| 0:14.8 | what you're looking at is a rather angry purple eye because I poked myself with my sunglasses. deliberately I didn't think oh I'll poke I know what I'll do I'll poke |
| 0:26.7 | myself with my sunglasses I was driving and I put my shades on did you have boys of summer playing |
| 0:31.6 | wayfare is on and well trying to get your Wayfair. |
| 0:34.6 | I was trying to reenact the boys of summer and just got it all horribly wrong. |
| 0:39.9 | And I saw actually saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac and I swerved off the road and crashed. |
| 0:45.2 | It was the whole thing was just a disaster. |
| 0:49.2 | Anyway, we do have another show. |
| 0:51.2 | We got Bruce Welsh who unlike Hank is an OBE because Hank couldn't |
| 0:57.3 | accept his because of his Jehovah's Witness beliefs. |
| 1:00.4 | Really? Yeah. I don't want to question, but I didn't know that you couldn't. |
| 1:04.0 | No, well I only know this from Bruce saying it in an interview. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh right. |
| 1:10.0 | I mean, let's just go back and just talk about how huge the shadows were and a huge |
| 1:16.5 | influence I mean I have got my little Bill Frindle moment here come on which is |
| 1:22.4 | between six 1960 and 1963 friendle moment here, which is between 60 and 963 they had 13 consecutive top 10 hits. |
| 1:29.2 | They had 69 UK chart singles, 33 with the shadows and 34 is Cliff Richards backing band. |
| 1:35.8 | Wow. You know and everybody, the people who come before us, you know, like you know |
| 1:42.0 | David and Pete and everybody, you know, they all |
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