1979 Shergold Masquerader Ex- Billy Harrison (THEM)

• All original Shergold Masqueradar from 1979
• Good condition overall
• Guitar has come direct to us from Billy Harrison, founder of THEM

More on the Shergold ..

The history of Shergold Guitars can be traced back to London 1968, when Jack Golder and Norman Houlder were making guitars for a number of British companies including Burns, Rosetti and Barnes & Mullins. The Barnes & Mullins electric guitars were essentially the first Shergold models, and a few of these B&M labelled instruments are still held by collectors today.

During the early 1970s, the established ‘Hayman’ guitar brand - which was also built by Jack and Norman – ceased production, leaving them to concentrate primarily on firmly establishing the Shergold brand, while still making bodies and necks for Burns guitars and a few others.

More on Billy Harrison;

Although not as well-known as his one-time bandmates Van Morrison and Alan Henderson, Belfast-born guitarist/singer Billy Harrison deserves recognition for founding the 1960s band Them. One of the hardest rocking and most distinctive R&B-based groups of their period even amid competition such as the Rolling Stones and the Pretty Things  they generated a string of well-deserved hits before Morrison's departure for a solo career in 1966. Harrison first put the group together under the name the Gamblers in 1962, and it was Morrison's joining and the fact that another, better-known British band was already using the Gamblers name that precipitated the name-change to Them the following year