"F.B.I." is an instrumental rock

Instrumental rock

Instrumental rock is a type of rock music which emphasizes musical instruments, and which features very little or no singing.Examples of instrumental rock can be found in practically every subgenre of rock, often from musicians who specialize in the style, most notably Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Link...

 tune recorded by the British group The Shadows

The Shadows

The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...

, written by Peter Gormley

Peter Gormley

Peter Gormley was an Australian born artist manager who guided the early careers of many recording artists, including Frank Ifield, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Marvin Welch & Farrar, Labi Siffre and Olivia Newton-John....

. It was released by EMI

EMI

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 as a single in February 1961 on the Columbia label with "Midnight" (Marvin, Welch) as the B-side. It spent 19 weeks in the UK Top 40 pop chart reaching #6 on two separate occasions in mid-February and mid-March 1961.

It was released in the USA in July 1961 on the Atlantic records

Atlantic Records

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 label with "The Frightened City" (Paramor) as the B-side.

Personnel

• Hank Marvin
  Hank Marvin
  Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...
  
   – lead guitar
• Bruce Welch
  Bruce Welch
  Bruce Welch OBE, is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer and singer, best known as a member of The Shadows.-Biography:...
  
   – rhythm guitar
• Jet Harris
  Jet Harris
  Jet Harris, MBE was an English musician. He was the bass guitarist of The Shadows until April 1962, and had subsequent success as a soloist and as a duo with the drummer Tony Meehan....
  
   – bass guitar
• Tony Meehan
  Tony Meehan
  Daniel Joseph Anthony "Tony" Meehan was a founder member of the British group The Shadows with Jet Harris, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch...
  
   – percussion

Covers

• A cover version
  Cover version
  In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
  
   of F.B.I. with "Wheels" as the B-side (Cat. 45-WB 436) was released in 1963 on the UK Embassy Records
  Embassy Records
  Embassy Records was originally a UK budget record label that produced cover versions of current hit songs that were sold exclusively in Woolworths shops at a cheaper price than the original recordings. As such, Embassy can be seen as the UK equivalent of U.S. labels such as Hit and Bell Records...
  
   budget record label
  Record label
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   - sold exclusively in Woolworths
  Woolworths Group
  Woolworths Group plc was a listed British company that owned the high-street retail chain, Woolworths, as well as other brands such as the entertainment distributor Entertainment UK and book and resource distributor Bertram Books...
  
   stores. It was credited to "Bud Ashton" (a generic pseudonym used to represent whatever session musician
  Session musician
  Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
  
   had actually made the recording).

• Queen
  Queen (band)
  Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
  
   guitarist Brian May
  Brian May
  Brian Harold May, CBE is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen...
  
   covered "F.B.I." on the b-side of his 1998 single "Why Don't We Try Again".