‘Apache’ was the first of a series of hits for the Shadows, whilst‘Man Of Mystery’/’The Stranger’ reached Number 5 in the UK in1960. The following year saw the release of four singles, all ofwhich were Top ten hits in the UK: ‘FBI’, ‘The Frightened City’,‘Kon-Tiki’ and ‘The Savage’. Although the Shadows had a briefrenaissance in the Seventies, largely fuelled by their Eurovisionhit ‘Let Me Be The One’, this compilation documents the goldenyears of 1958 to 1961 – four brief years during which a uniquesound was created, often imitated but never equalled, and whichcan instantly be recognised as ‘The Sound of the Shads’.