jfenn78 wrote:Anyone who is still tuned in to this most edifying of topics ...
I do find this quite interesting actually, as this was the period when, as a teenager, I was just 'getting into' The Shadows and I can clearly remember all these singles when they came out. Sometimes I'd hear them on the radio, sometimes I'd see them performed on telly, sometimes I'd just see them appear in the 'New Singles' box in Sounds Around in Burnt Oak... It would be good to know what hopes Hank, Bruce and Brian had for each one (or not...!) Were they just shots in the dark...or did they think that each one might be a top 10 single...like
Argentina, Deerhunter and
Riders had been...? I remember stopping at our local library (at the halfway point of my paper round) to peruse the review sections of the Music magazines that they had there, so see if the latest Shads (or anyone else I was interested in) single had been reviewed. I remember being quite shocked at a particularly nasty review when the
Going Home single came out... "Can they sue for libel?" I remember thinking!