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LONDON - Jim Marshall, who helped shape the sound of rock with his groundbreaking amplifier designs, has died. He was 88. His son Terry Marshall said he died in a hospice in England on Thursday ...

This photo dated March 1, 2010 shows Jim Marshall of Marshall Amplifiers in Milton Keynes, England. Jim Marshall, who helped shape the sound of rock and roll with his groundbreaking amplifier designs, ...

At the Marshall amplifier factory in Milton Keynes, there's a small museum piled high with musty, well-used equipment. There are original models of the 100-watt amps favoured by Jimi Hendrix and Eric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stack of Marshall amplifiers and speaker cabs, set up at a London venue on January 11, 2013 Legendary amp-maker Marshall ...

1 of 9 — Lemmy Kilmister immortalized the Marshall amp in the Motorhead song, "Dr. Rock": "Chin up, shoulders back / You've got a body like a Marshall stack." 2 of 9 — When Jimi Hendrix first walked ...

Jim Marshall, the “father of loud” whose signature line of amplifiers became all but synonymous with power and presence in rock and roll, died on Thursday in hospice care. He was 88. Marshall had ...

The man who gave rock one of its key visual and sonic props has died. Jim Marshall, known as "The Father of Loud" for inventing the Marshall amplifier, was 88 years old. Marshall was a drummer and ...

The sixties superstars’ ear-shattering sounds, blasting first in small clubs and music halls and later in stadiums and arenas, relied on the basic Marshall amp for their frenzied, thunderous roar.

It was the physical embodiment of rock’s power and majesty — a wall of black, vinyl-clad cabinets, one atop the other, crowned with a rectangular box containing the innovative circuitry that ...