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By 1967, the Shadows were at the end of their hitmaking career, and very close to breaking up altogether. Before they went, however, they had one final classic to deliver, an album that arrived packaged up like a parcel, which, when unwrapped, revealed a host of solid gems, evidence that no matter how far pop music had moved from the model they helped style a decade earlier, the Shadows had no intention of being left behind. From Hank, Bruce, Brian, and John peaks with a typically well-crafted Graham Gouldman original, "Naughty Nippon Nights," but from start to finish, it rattles with a defiance that makes a mockery of the band's so-called "veteran" status. No matter that they scored their first hits (with Cliff Richard) while Lennon and McCartney were still killing time in the Quarrymen. For all that the Beatles brought to the '60s, none of it would have been possible without the Shadows, and their blistering version of "You're a Better Man Than I," the jokey "Snap Crackle and How's Your Father," and excellent covers of "The Last Train to Clarksville" and "The Letter" are career best album tracks (even if they can't compete with the band's best 45s). Plus they play with a ferocity that borders on menacing at times, even when slowing everything down and welcoming Cliff Richard into the pack for the hit "The Day I Met Marie"; it's a beautiful, dreamy song, but there's something oddly menacing about it as well, a moodiness that taps so thoroughly into the underbelly of psychedelia that, if this wasn't good ol' Cliff and the Shads, it could have been almost anyone.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Welch, Composer - Bennett, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Nakamura, Composer - Kasakawa, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Harper, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Gouldman, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Ichikawa, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Phillips, Composer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Wayne Carson, Writer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Rostill, Composer - Bruce Welch, Composer - The Shadows, Performance, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Composer - Brian Bennett, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Allen Toussaint, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Peter R Vince, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Bobby Hart, Writer - Tommy Boyce, Writer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Rostill, Composer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Brian Bennett, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Hank Marvin, Writer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Hank Marvin, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Welch, Composer - Bennett, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Nakamura, Composer - Kasakawa, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Harper, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Gouldman, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Ichikawa, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Phillips, Composer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Wayne Carson, Writer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Rostill, Composer - Bruce Welch, Composer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Hank Marvin, Composer - Brian Bennett, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Allen Toussaint, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Peter R Vince, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Bobby Hart, Writer - Tommy Boyce, Writer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Rostill, Composer - The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Brian Bennett, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Hank Marvin, Writer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
The Shadows, MainArtist - Peter Mew, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Hank Marvin, Composer
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Albumbeschreibung
By 1967, the Shadows were at the end of their hitmaking career, and very close to breaking up altogether. Before they went, however, they had one final classic to deliver, an album that arrived packaged up like a parcel, which, when unwrapped, revealed a host of solid gems, evidence that no matter how far pop music had moved from the model they helped style a decade earlier, the Shadows had no intention of being left behind. From Hank, Bruce, Brian, and John peaks with a typically well-crafted Graham Gouldman original, "Naughty Nippon Nights," but from start to finish, it rattles with a defiance that makes a mockery of the band's so-called "veteran" status. No matter that they scored their first hits (with Cliff Richard) while Lennon and McCartney were still killing time in the Quarrymen. For all that the Beatles brought to the '60s, none of it would have been possible without the Shadows, and their blistering version of "You're a Better Man Than I," the jokey "Snap Crackle and How's Your Father," and excellent covers of "The Last Train to Clarksville" and "The Letter" are career best album tracks (even if they can't compete with the band's best 45s). Plus they play with a ferocity that borders on menacing at times, even when slowing everything down and welcoming Cliff Richard into the pack for the hit "The Day I Met Marie"; it's a beautiful, dreamy song, but there's something oddly menacing about it as well, a moodiness that taps so thoroughly into the underbelly of psychedelia that, if this wasn't good ol' Cliff and the Shads, it could have been almost anyone.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 28 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:28
- Main artists: The Shadows
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Parlophone UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1999 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
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