Editing Marshall Amplification (section)

=== Origins ===
[[File:J&T.Marshall firstshop.jpeg|thumb|Site of Jim Marshall's first shop at 76 [[Uxbridge Road]], [[Hanwell]], west London, now a men's barber]]
After a successful career as a drummer and teacher of drum technique, [[Jim Marshall (businessman)|Jim Marshall]] first went into business in 1962 with a small shop in [[Hanwell]], west London, selling drums, [[cymbal]]s and drum-related accessories; Marshall himself also gave drum lessons. According to Jim, [[Ritchie Blackmore]], [[Big Jim Sullivan]] and [[Pete Townshend]] were the three main guitarists who often came into the shop. They pushed Marshall to make guitar amplifiers and told him the sound and design they wanted.<ref name="Premier">{{Cite web |website=Premier Guitar |url=http://www.premierguitar.com/archive/interviews/jim_marshall.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213053331/http://www.premierguitar.com/archive/interviews/jim_marshall.htm |url-status=dead |title=Marshall Amplification |archive-date=13 December 2010}}</ref> Marshall Limited then expanded, hired designers and started making guitar amplifiers to compete with existing amplifiers, the most notable of which at the time were the [[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender]] amplifiers imported from the United States.