Jim Marshall (Entrepreneur)
James Charles "Jim" Marshall , OBE , (born July 29, 1923 in Kensington , London ; † April 5, 2012 ) was a British pioneer in the field of guitar amplifiers and known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud .
Life
As a child, Marshall suffered from bone tuberculosis and as a teenager was forced to go to work to support the family. At the same time, he was already active as a musician, primarily a drummer. Marshall was retired during World War II and worked in an armaments electronics company. During this time he taught himself electrical engineering and even became the company's chief electronics engineer . After the Second World War he gave drum lessons and in 1960 he used the proceeds to set up a small music business in Harnwell. When his store customers (such as Ritchie Blackmore and Pete Townshend ) asked for an amplifier with certain characteristics, he and his employee Dudley Craven started producing this new amplifier. That led to the founding of Marshall Amplification in 1962 . From the small manufacture one of the most famous guitar amplifier companies in the world developed. Marshall died of cancer at the age of 88 in a hospice in London.
Awards
In 1984 and 1992, Queen Elizabeth II presented Jim Marshall Products Limited with The Queens Award For Export Achievement . In 2002 the Association of the German Music Trade presented Jim Marshall with a plaque of honor on the occasion of the company's 40th anniversary. The College of Music in the USA awarded him an honorary doctorate . In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II made him officer of the Order of the British Empire .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jim Marshall in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/jim-marshall-dies-aged-88-538243
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: note of death (English) accessed on April 6, 2012
- ↑ Jim Marshall: 'They call me the Father of Loud'
- ↑ Mike Collett-White: Guitar amplifier pioneer Jim Marshall dies aged 88. Reuters , April 5, 2012, accessed December 28, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c Edgar Klüsener: When a drummer taught guitarists how to make noise , Der Spiegel , November 13, 2004
- ↑ a b Doglas Martin: Jim Marshall, Maker of Famed fuzzy Amplifiers, this at 88 , New York Times , April 5, 2012 (Accessed on April 8, 2012)
- ↑ Torsten Hampel: Make it louder. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 21, 2012.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Marshall, Jim |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marshall, James Charles |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pioneer in the field of guitar amps |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1923 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kensington , London |
DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 2012 |
Place of death | London |