Like captainhaddock, I was bowled over by "Rocking With Curly Leads". I was a bit older than 11 when I got the LP (at the beginning of 1974). It was completely unexpected at the time and it didn't seem to me that there would ever be another Shadows album, or even a Shadows appearance.
Yes, for me (and, I understand, for Brian Bennett, who sounds as though he is having a ball), this is the best-ever Shadows long-player; it retains much of the original early sixties sound, but tempers it with the best of the rock guitar developments which had occurred over the thirteen years since
Apache.
I keep a copy in the car for the CD-player and was listening to it just this week. I can't see that ever happening for "Simply Shadows"
JN