Next year e.g. 2008 will be 50th Anniversary of Cliff Richard and The Shadows performing together. As Hank Marvin suggested on British Radio Station some celebrations and musical events are possible.

In September of 1958 Cliff Richard's manager John Foster hired two unknown guitar players from New Castle e.g. Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch for the British Autumn 1958 Cliff's Tour.

Cliff had already recorded "Move It", which was high on the pop list, so the tour happened to be big success. In the 1960 something amazing and big happened to The Shadows. Jerry Lordan, composer and musician himself gave them strange instrumental tune "Apache" to record.

It became big hit and since then The Shadows became very popular and big stars in the pop music business. Since then they recorded tens of instrumental hits and tonnes of wonderful music.

With some breaks their amazing career lasted to year 2004 when they did the Last Tour and they said farewell to theirs fans. In 1985 H. Marvin emigrated to Australia, so the contact with the band was dramatically reduced.

To keep The Shads music and memory alive Bruce Welch organizes every year in Surrey, London, England musical event called Shadowmania, where he plays with his band and Phil Kelly as lead guitarist. The rest of ex-Shadows are participating in the event and fans have big fun.

Similar Shadowmanias are organized in Toronto, Canada by the Toronto Shadows Club, where Bruce and some ex-Shadows are coming and the Canadian fans have big fun too.

See Shadowmania 2006 - click here

In the middle 60-ties in Poland, The Shads and Cliff were very popular and all the Polish guitar bands were playing their music. Today, Polish baby boomers still love that music, but not much is played around. So our Club The IFK gives that opportunity to get back again to The Shads music and have good time and fun.