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Justin Hayward was interviewed on on Radio 2 this week and mentioned he'd been jamming Buddy Holly songs acoustically with Bruce and Marty Wilde last week.

What a CD those 3 could turn out!

Could be a new project in the works!

I've always thought that Justin Hayward was probably influenced to some degree by the Shads. When I listen to his acoustic rhythm playing on 'Question' I hear Bruce.

A Hayward quote :-

''We can often remember the moment we first heard a song or a record. That was the case with me and ‘Apache’. The mystery and depth of it, and the minor key darkness and major key relief absolutely captured me. It was the summer of 1960. I was working ( at 13 years old ) with a theatre company in Lyme Regis and one of the company had a radio that we would tune in without fail to the ‘pop’ shows on the BBC Light Programme. We knew when they would be coming on – there were so few pop shows on the government controlled airwaves. I heard ‘Apache’ for the first time on that radio in that little theatre. It was such a huge record that year I was in heaven and I have adored the record ever since. It still never fails to work it’s magic on me every single time I hear it. Apache is one long beautiful guitar solo.

Today, one of my close friends is Bruce Welch and we love playing the old songs''

I once played, briefly, in a band that included a chap from Swindon, who had been to school with Justin's brother. He said he had seen the lad himself playing a few times, and he was doing all the Shads tunes perfectly at the age of 14 or 15.

(I hate people like that, don't you?)