{"name":"Bruce Welch","title":"Bruce Welch","id":2957,"slug":"bruce-welch","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/2957/?format=json","bio_short":"Bruce Welch (born Bruce Cripps, 2 November 1941 in Bognor Regis, Sussex, England) is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer and singer, best known as a member of The Shadows.  Welch grew up with his Aunt Sadie in Chester le Street, County Durham. After learning to play the guitar, he formed a Tyneside skiffle band called The Railroaders when he was fourteen[1]. His Rutherford Grammar School friend Brian Rankin (later to be known as Hank Marvin, joined the group and they travelled to London in 1958 for the final of a talent competition.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/BruceWelch266783.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":740,"title":"Í bljúgri bæn","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/i-bljugri-baen/"},{"id":21342,"title":"Please Mr. Please","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/please-mr-please/"}]}