Chords for Hank Marvin on BBC Breakfast 29/05/2014

It's all sorted.
Yes, perhaps.
Now, with his band, The Shadows, he spent more weeks at number one
than anyone except Elvis and The Beatles.
And with a career spanning well over 50 years,
he's credited with inspiring some of the world's best guitarists.
Yes, stirred by the sounds of summer.
It doesn't necessarily feel like that today,
but Hank Marvin is now releasing his 15th solo album.
And with an infamous name that's inspired television adverts
and Cockney rhyming slang,
it's perhaps appropriate that he's just called it Hank.
Before we have a chat with him,
let's take a look at Hank with The Shadows.
_ [A] Four young men who have been hitting the hit parade
where it really counts.
They've been on our programme once before.
It's great to welcome back The Shadows.
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_ _ [Gb] _ _ [E] I think everybody at home might have heard you say that.
Let's give that blouse back to your wife.
Hank, welcome.
Thank you.
You haven't changed a bit.
How do you manage to stay looking so [Eb] young?
It's the drugs. _ _
Monkey glands?
No.
Well, thank you for the compliment.
We try.
And we see you there with [N] that iconic guitar.
Tell us a little bit about that, how you came to have one.
Well, _ _ 1959, late spring, Cliff said to me,
Hank, I'd like to buy you a really good guitar.
What do you reckon?
Which model?
_ _ And we decided because Buddy Holly was using a Fender, _ _
that would be the one we went for.
So we got the catalogue from the USA,
we poured over the catalogue and we found that the most
attractive looking guitar was the Stratocaster.
And you could get it in red with gold-plated hardware.
And that's the one we ordered.
And it was so beautiful when it arrived.
So that guitar you saw me play there is in fact,
not the original.
It is a copy of the original.
I have had a series of signature models
made in the Fender custom shop, modelled on that guitar.
Where's the original now then?
Actually, the one Bruce is playing is the original.
Okay.
It still belongs to Cliff,
but Bruce borrowed it in _ 1968 and never gave it back.
That's true.
That's great.
It's one of those things, I'll just borrow it for a bit.
Exactly.
How many years?
Decades later.
Well, you're back with a_
Yes, thank you.
Fantastic.
_ Fantastic album.
Oh, thanks.
And you've collaborated with your children on this,
haven't you?
Yes, well, my son Ben, who is a guitarist,
he's actually a Bachelor of Music. _
He _ _ _ worked with me on nine of the arrangements
and played on the album too.
_ My daughter Talia is a good singer
and they both [A] worked on albums before,
but I wanted some kind of a theorial.
There you go, it's Ben and myself in the studio
trying [Am] to play.
[A] _ _ _ _ Is he any good?
He's [D] great, yeah.
Is he?
[Am] He's better than me.
[Bb] Wow.
Everyone's better than me.
_ [F] _ I just [A] wanted some ethereal vocals in the background,
very subtle female [E] voices.
And it's often good to use [G] one person
[D] and get them to sing, save the [Am] three parts,
because the voice blends so [E] beautifully.
And that was [G] your daughter, the voice?
Yes, yes.
[D] Well, [Gm] I mean, that must be a [Am] strange dynamic in the studio,
son, daughter, dad, making an [C] album, isn't it?
It's got its [G] advantages.
[Am] First of all, you don't have to pay them,
keep it in the family.
_ It's a good feeling to work with your kids.
I enjoy it.
We get on very well together.
[D] We've got the same [Ebm] sort of sense of humor.
And you're wearing the same shirt there as you are today.
_ _ It's very summery sound in parts, isn't it?
_ Yes, it is.
Suits, well, hopefully will be a summery time of year.
Well, so far it's done nothing for the weather here,
but I'm hoping it will have an effect.
Yeah, a lot of the titles are related to summer,
and even some of the songs like Daydream,
the old London Spoonful hit, _ California Girls,
although they're not directly related to summer,
there's a feel of summer in the title and in the music itself.
And they've always been [F] favorites of mine from way [Eb] back
whenever they first were released.
And it's nice to be able to take pieces of music like that,
interpret them as an instrumental
and do something [N] a little bit different with them.
Yeah, I mean, I suppose that's the thing
as an instrumental, isn't it?
Because you can enjoy this in its own right.
Because there's no voice to distract you in a way,
you can put your own thoughts and feelings into it.
I used to say that the cliff, that's the good thing about it.
Get it out of it.
No voice to distract you. _
I bet he loved that.
Yeah, Cliff's great, actually.
He's, it's funny, we talked to someone the other day,
the first hit we had, which was Apache with the Shadows,
it knocked Cliff's Please Don't Tease off the number one spot,
which he used to say, ah, it doesn't really bother me.
Yes, it does. _ _
Oh, look at this.
How much contact do you still have with him?
I mean, are you in touch regularly?
I know you still talk from time to time.
Yeah, not regularly, no.
The last time I saw Cliff was just over 18 months ago,
he was in Australia, where I live.
_ And if I'm around when he comes over,
he always asks me to come on, do a few numbers with him,
and we have something to eat and things like this.
We did the show together.
It was an open air concert at a winery, beautiful setting.
But he's, last time I saw him, he's fine.
I think at the moment he's in Europe, touring in Europe.
If we're name dropping, talking about Cliff,
let's talk about George Harrison for a moment,
because, is this true, he once tried to persuade you
to ditch the whole idea of instrumental music?
Yes, he did. _ _
1965, we just had a big hit with a song [Ebm] called
"'Don't Make My Baby Blue," which was a song.
Very distracting, vocals on it, you know?
So, bumped into George at Abbey Road,
where we both recorded, and we'd known each other
for quite a few years by then.
He said, oh, I love the new record, Hank, it's great.
He said, can I just say something?
I said, well, if you like.
And he said, I think you should stick [E] to vocals,
leave the instrumentals behind.
You've just had this big hit with this,
[Ebm] move ahead and do some more vocals.
And we didn't take his advice.
So you completely ignored him?
I did.
Well, he's younger than me, so I thought_ LAUGHTER _
I've got to ask, Gavin, you live in Australia now,
where people probably aren't aware of the Cockney rhyming slang.
But of course, here now, people say, I'm Hank Marvin, starving.
Do you get that all the time when you come back?
Well, a few people bring it up, you know, it's all the knowing wink. _
_ _ It's, you know, the only person I knew before this,
from the music industry who was in rhyming slang, was Ruby Murray.
Ah!
You know, gun for a curry, gun for a ruby.
_ Maybe it's going to be an Andy Murray now, I don't know.
Yeah, maybe.
Well, Hank, it is lovely to talk [Abm] to you this morning.
It was, yes.
Good luck with the album.
_ And if you're Hank Marvin, there's loads of food out there.
Thank you, I am.
Lovely to meet you both.
Thanks, Zoe.
Thanks for coming in.
At the time, 8.46.
Sorry, I'm interrupting you all the time, aren't I?
Should say, Hank is out next week.
I'm going to get rid of the