What's new

6 July 2025

The Japanese VHS video / Betamax video "Live At The Budokan" has been added to chapter 5 of the instrumentation feature on The Beatles. Also, chapters 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 of this feature have been updated.

21 June 2025

A brand new feature on the instrumentation of The Beatles' recordings has been added.

24 May 2025

Completing his collection of digitized books, Malcolm Campbell's very first Shadows book, "A Guide To The Shadows And Hank Marvin On CD" from 1999 is now available for download on this website.

2 April 2025

Another familiar book which was previously only available in a printed version has now also received a digital version by Malcolm Campbell: the 2001 book "The Shadows At EMI - The Vinyl Legacy". It is available for download on this website.

30 March 2025

Malcolm Campbell has prepared a digital version of the 2005 book "A Guide To The Shadows And Hank Marvin On CD - Updated Illustrated Edition 2005", which he wrote together with Les Woosey. It is available for download on this website.

22 March 2025

Two brand new e-books by Malcolm Campbell on The Ventures' EPs and compilations have been added.

3 February 2025

- The instrumentation features on The Who have been updated with the instrumental versions of all tracks from the "Who's Next" album.

1 February 2025

- A new review has been added for the Marvin, Welch & Farrar CDs "Marmaduke" and "Lady Of The Morning".
- The instrumentation features on The Shadows, Marvin, Welch & Farrar and Shadows Members appearances on Cliff Richard recordings have been updated with the tracks from the above mentioned CDs.

31 December 2024

The majority of the instrumentation features have been updated:
- Indications of sound modes have been added to all featured releases.
- Superfluous mention of sound modes under individual tracks have been removed.
- References to first issues of tracks which were released earlier than primary releases have been added.

22 December 2024

Two new instrumentation features added for the recordings of Brian Locking and John Farrar.

7 December 2024

A new instrumentation feature of a totally different but great band: The Who.

30 November 2024

- The review for The Shadows CDs "In Concert" has been slightly modified.
- The chapters 2 "The Primary Singles" and 7 "Index Of Titles" from the instrumentation article on Cliff Richard & The Shadows has been updated with the CD single "Let Me Be The One".

22 November 2024

The new website is online!