180 gram vinyl. ‘Apache’ was the first of a series of hits for the Shadows, whilst ‘Man Of Mystery’/‘The Stranger’ reached Number 5 in the UK in 1960. The following year saw the release of four singles, all of which were Top ten hits in the UK: ‘FBI’, ‘The Frightened City’, ‘Kon-Tiki’ and ‘The Savage’. Although the Shadows had a brief renaissance in the Seventies, largely fuelled by their Eurovision hit ‘Let Me Be The One’, this compilation documents the golden years of 1958 to 1961 - four brief years during which a unique sound was created, often imitated but never equalled, and which can instantly be recognised as ‘The Sound of the Shads’.
