Olivia NewtonJohn was engaged to Bruce Welch but they never made it down the aisle


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As he prepares to go out on the road one more time with The Shadows - including Newcastle-born guitarist Hank Marvin - Bruce knows he is lucky to be alive after a failed suicide attempt and a.


Olivia NewtonJohn was engaged to Bruce Welch but they never made it down the aisle

In the early 1970s Bruce and Hank teamed up with Australian artist John Farrar to form Marvin, Welch and Farrar. But "we couldn't escape The Shadows", Bruce says, as barely three songs into a concert fans would shout 'play Apache'. The Shadows represented Great Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975. They finished second with Let Me Be The.


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Bruce (second from left) with Jet Harris, Brian Bennett, Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin[SAT MAG] Bruce Welch is rhythm guitarist for The Shadows, one of the most successful British bands of the.


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Hank, 75, is a successful solo artist and about to release his 16th solo album, Without A Word. He has three children from his first marriage and lives with his second wife, Carole, in Australia.


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SHADOWS LEGEND BRUCE WELCH. IT was on their second day in the Big Smoke that Bruce and Hank made their way to the 2i's: "Tommy Steele was the resident star there: we'd read about it in one of the music papers.. Dwayne, 57, from first wife Anne and three grand-children: Bluebell, 24, Mimi, 21, and 19-year-old Milo. Like his first.


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Ever-smiling Hank was the perfect foil to the coolly urbane Cliff, volatile Jet Harris, affable Bruce Welch and taciturn Tony Meehan and later Brian Bennett. However, it wasn't always like that, he reveals. He's had to fight depression and is only just recovering from the most recent bout, which he describes as 'the toughest time I have.


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Cue spooky music - in 1959. I don't know about you but I can't imagine a melody, or any kind of lead guitar playing come to that, sounding good for an extended period without some form of complimentary accompaniment, either in the form of interesting underlying harmony or a propulsive rhythm, or both. Even a lead guitarist as revered as Hank.


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Bruce Welch. Olivia met British rocker Bruce Welch in 1968 when she was the supporting act for his band, The Shadows, with the pair quickly becoming engaged not long after.. It was instead his ex-wife, Yvette Nipar, who is reportedly close to Olivia. Patrick has never been found, and he is presumed dead. Olivia with her current husband, John.


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Bruce Welch was born in Bognor Regis in 1941. His parents (Stan Cripps and Grace Welch) moved him to 15 Broadwood View, Chester-le-Street, County Durham shortly after. Welch's mother died when he was aged six, and he grew up with his Aunt Sadie.


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In 1968, the actress started dating English guitarist, songwriter and producer Bruce Welch. The 80-year-old from Bognor Regis, Sussex, was a founding member of the British rock group The Shadows.


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Making their name in the late-50s/early-60s, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch are two of the most successful musicians ever to emerge out of Newcastle. As the backing band for a young Cliff Richard.


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As her star continued to rise in London, a then-17-year-old Olivia Newton-John caught the eye of Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch in 1968. A whirlwind romance ensued, with the pair getting engaged.


Olivia NewtonJohn was engaged to Bruce Welch but they never made it down the aisle

The Shadows band members Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch discuss their careers;. Hank lives with his second wife Carole, with whom he has two children, Thalia, 47, and Ben, 45, in Perth, Australia.


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Olivia Newton-John's former fiance and old friend Bruce Welch insists the way he feels about her will not change after she has been made a Dame.. Bruce married for a second time in 1979 but.


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Guitarist Bruce Welch, now 80, and his band The Shadow's dominated the charts in the 1950s and 60s, and performed as Cliff Richard's backing group in the 60s. But when he was 58, the.


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The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters between 1958 and 1959) were an English instrumental rock group, who dominated the British popular music charts in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in the pre-Beatles era. They served as the backing band for Cliff Richard from 1958 to 1968, and have joined him for several reunion tours.. The Shadows have had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the.