Editing Jet Harris (section)

==Later career==
Harris was declared bankrupt in 1988.<ref name="Indy obit"/> The BBC reported that it took Harris 30 years of heavy drinking before he finally admitted to being an alcoholic and sought help. For many years, Harris made a point in his stage shows of saying how long it had been since he quit drinking, winning applause from audiences who knew how it had wrecked his career in the 1960s. Harris still played occasionally, with backing band the Diamonds or as a guest with the Rapiers, and guested with Tony Meehan at Cliff Richard's 1989 'The Event' concerts.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}

In 1998, he was awarded a Fender Lifetime Achievement Award for his role in popularising the bass guitar in Britain. He appeared annually at [[Bruce Welch]]'s 'Shadowmania' and toured backed by the Rapiers (a Shadows [[tribute band]]). He recorded continuously from the late 1980s with a variety of collaborators, including Tangent, Alan Jones (also an ex-Shadows bassist), [[Bobby Graham (musician)|Bobby Graham]] and the Local Heroes. His previous problems with stage nerves had seemingly disappeared, and 2006 saw Harris' first single release in over forty years, "San Antonio".{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}

From 2005 to 2009, Harris achieved a lifetime ambition by touring UK theatres with his own show, "Me and My Shadows". The Rapiers performed as his 'Shadows', and he had a special guest star in his former girlfriend Billie Davis, who had rescued him when the pair were in a road crash in late 1963 that effectively ended his career. "I'm going to go out in my twilight years with a big bang—and 'Me and My Shadows' is one of my little dreams," Harris said at the time. Harris said of the Rapiers' lead guitarist Colin Pryce Jones: "He is on a par with Hank Marvin."

In 2007, Harris was invited by UK singer [[Marty Wilde]] to be a special guest on his 50th Anniversary tour. This culminated in an evening at the [[London Palladium]], with other guests including Wilde's daughters Kim and Roxanne, [[Justin Hayward]] of [[The Moody Blues]] and original Wildcats members [[Big Jim Sullivan]], [[Brian Locking|Brian "Licorice" Locking]] and [[Brian Bennett]], who joined [[Hank Marvin]] and [[Bruce Welch]] of The Shadows on stage with Wilde and the current Wildcats (Neville Marten and Eddie Allen on guitar, Roger Newell bass, and Bryan Fitzpatrick, drums). The show's finale featured the closest thing to a Shadows reunion possible, with Marvin, Welch, Harris, Locking and Brian Bennett (who in 1962 had replaced Tony Meehan, now deceased) all appearing on stage with the show's company.

The evening was filmed, and a DVD released, with Harris playing three tunes – "Diamonds", "Theme For Something Really Important" and "Scarlett O'Hara" – backed by the Wildcats. So successful was this tour that Wilde repeated the invitation to join him on his 2010 ''Born to Rock and Roll'' tour, which finished in Basingstoke on 20 November. Harris said that this was his most enjoyable working experience in years.{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}}

His fan club arranged a 70th birthday party for him on 5 July 2009, at the [[Winter Gardens Pavilion, Weston-super-Mare|Winter Gardens]], [[Weston-super-Mare]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jetharrisfanclub.co.uk |title=Jet Harris Fan Club |publisher=Jet Harris Fan Club |access-date=9 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408042527/http://www.jetharrisfanclub.co.uk/ |archive-date= 8 April 2009 }}</ref>

In 2010, Harris started working with the Shadowers, led by guitarist Justin Daish. He began plans for a new show, featuring fresh material he had never performed before. However, regular tour dates and studio recordings with the Shadowers, [[Brian Locking|Brian "Licorice" Locking]] and Alan Jones, though discussed, never materialised due to Harris' poor health. His last concert (5 February 2011 at Ferneham Hall, [[Fareham]]) saw him perform one tune ("Here I Stand" from his album ''The Phoenix Rises'') with both Locking and Jones; this was the only time the three Shadows bass guitarists would ever perform together.