- He was made an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Music.
- Richmond Upon Thames, Surrey, England (May 2009)
- Member of The Shadows with Hank Marvin, the backing band for Cliff Richard from 1958 to 1968. They also went on several reunion tours afterwards.
- He got started in the music business when he was still at school when he and Hank Marvin used to play in a Newcastle skiffle group called The Railroaders. With Hank he went to London to seek fame and fortune. After starving for months they played in coffee bars and got dates with a combo then a break as members of a group backing a young unknown Cliff Richard.
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