JET HARRIS, founder member of The Shadows and 60s solo hit artist, appears at Huntingdon Hall tomorrow (Saturday) with Bobby Graham and the Rock Experience.

After meeting Cliff Richard as a young man, Jet joined Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Tony Meehan to form the Drifters. However, legal threats from America meant they had to find a new name.

Jet said: "I named the Shadows. Me and Hank Marvin went out to the pub in the country trying to think of all sorts of names. We thought of the Zodiacs, the Zephyrs, the Lions and then suddenly I said the Shadows. I can't imagine it being called anything else apart from Cliff Richard and the Shadows."

Jet said he left the band in 1962, after four years of massive chart success, because he had had enough and had a drinking problem. It is only in recent years that he has become teetotal.

"I've been dry now for six years and fully back into my music," he said, "I am an alcoholic. It's an illness but I am glad I am rid of it. People come to me for help now. You have got to want to stop, that's the most important thing. I wanted to stop."

Jet's Worcester gig will be backed by the Rock Experience and opened by Bobby Graham, the man voted top session drummer in the UK.

Jet said of Bobby: "He has played on 15,000 hits and is quite a character. He played on a lot of hits from the 60s including with the Dave Clark Five and the Kinks. He tells all his stories during the show.

"We will do Shadows stuff, Dwayne Eddy, Booker T and the MGs and some Jet Harris and I talk to the audience as well. It's quite an interesting show and we are getting 17 and 18 year olds in our audiences now, which is nice to see. It's good for the old ego."

Tickets are priced at £11 and £12 on 01905 611427.