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At a rough guesstimate Bernie Marsdens name appears on a hundred albums maybe more. In addition to a long-running solo career the Buckinghamshire-born guitarist has been a recording musician since the early 1970s via membership of such groups as Whitesnake, UFO, Wild Turkey, Babe Ruth, Paice Ashton & Lord, Cozy Powells Hammer, Alaska, M3 and many more. Though theres a tendency to pigeonhole him as a blues-rock guitarist, each of Marsdens acts had its own individual flavour.

Although Marsden was wary of flooding the credits with too many special guests, Shine does feature some extremely well-known names, from Joe Bonamassa to Whitesnake singer David Coverdale and the Deep Purple duo of Ian Paice (drums) and Don Airey (keyboards). Jimmy Copley of Jeff Beck fame behind the kit and Mark Feltham of Nine Below Zero also supplies some breath taking harmonica playing. I cant help it, Ive got a lot of mates and quite a few of them are guitar players, Bernie laughs.