I was talking to someone in West Wales today about the Jehovah’s Witnesses, like you do, and the subject of Hank Marvin of The Shadows cropped up.
I don’t know if this is an urban myth, but I have heard it more than once over the years and it has always had the ring of truth about it.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are famously Christian.
Lead guitarist Hank Marvin became a Jehovah’s Witness in 1973.
Whenever Cliff Richard and The Shadows toured the UK after that – wherever they performed on a particular Saturday night – every Sunday morning Hank Marvin would go round knocking on people’s doors, carrying copies of The Watchtower and spreading the Word of God.
Quite how mothers of a certain age reacted when they opened the door, bleary-eyed, on a Sunday morning to find their teenage pop idol Hank Marvin asking, “Have you ever thought of giving your life to Jesus?” I cannot imagine.
Well, I CAN imagine it and it gives me warm smiles of happiness whenever I do.
Even more surreal is the story that Frank Zappa apparently said Hank Marvin’s guitar style heavily influenced the first Mothers of Invention album Freak Out! and that guitarist Carlos Santana’s early nickname was ‘Apache’ after The Shadows’ famous tune of that name.
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John,
I like the idea of this very much although I cant shed any light on whether its actually true, what I do know is that the name Hank B Marvin gave us that lovely rhyming slang phrase when a person says, “come on lets get something to eat, I’M HANK B” Hank B being and abbreviation of Hank B Marvin = STARVIN. A great contribution to the English Language equal to any of the musical scores he has given us and probably deserving of a knighthood in itself.