Discogs PWA

Hank Marvin

English guitarist born 28 October 1941, in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. Lead guitarist for band [a=The Shadows]. He was also the owner of the first imported Fender Stratocaster guitar in the UK, which was bought for him by friend and colleague [a=Cliff Richard] and later stolen by [a=Bruce Welch]. The Shadows primarily performed instrumentals, and was formed as a backing band for singer [a=Cliff Richard]. Marvin is famous for having a distinctive guitar sound and appearance, primarily using a clean sound with very high reverb and vibrato, which primarily gives a dreamy effect to the sound. Incidently, in cockney rhyming slang, Hank Marvin's name is one of the ways often used as to signify hunger: "I'm Hank Marvin" = "I'm starvin'" (with or without the obligatory expletive!).