9/3/2023 0 Comments Shadow era hacks![]() Whether Keith Moon actually drove a Shadow into a swimming pool is debatable So began the era of the rock ’n’ Rolls-Royce. Many owners were known for their wild antics whether Moon actually drove a Shadow into a swimming pool is debatable (some of his friends say it was a Lincoln), but such myths – perpetuated by the cover of Oasis’s 1997 Be Here Now album featuring a Shadow in a pool – positioned them as the car equivalent of a rock star’s unfazeable butler. The Shadow’s edge attracted a host of new-gen buyers, including footballer George Best, The Who drummer Keith Moon, Paul McCartney, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, who each commissioned them in era-appropriate shades such as gold, aubergine and beige. The Shadow, he says, both looked modern and “felt modern to drive”.Ī 1979 Silver Shadow, sold for £17,000 at Bonhams © Bonhamsįootballer George Best with his 1972 Silver Shadow at Old Trafford Until then, Rolls-Royces had a separate chassis “not out of place on a truck”, according to former Wigan Athletic FC owner Bill Kenyon he’s restored older models, and owned a Shadow in the ’70s and ’80s. They’re wonderful, gentle cars that don’t fight or bite everything is slowed down, they calm you.”Īssociated with the British Establishment and rock royalty alike, the Silver Shadow was introduced in 1965 following six decades of sizeable, stately British-made Rolls-Royce designs. “If anyone thinks otherwise, they don’t understand them. “Silver Shadows have always been cool,” says Paul Hegarty of The Market by Bonhams.
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