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Bert Weedon 1920-2012
Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Brian May are among the stars who learned to play guitar from his books, with May saying yesterday "There's not a guitarist in Britain from my generation who doesn't owe him a great debt of gratitude."
As a solo guitarist, Weedon had many hits, including 'Guitar Boogie Shuffle', 'Apache' and 'Nashville Boogie'. In 1976 he became the first solo guitar player to top the Official UK Top 40 album charts with 22 Golden Guitar Greats.
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Herbert Maurice William 'Bert' Weedon, OBE (10 May 1920 – 20 April 2012) was an English guitarist whose style of guitar playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a hit record in the UK Singles Chart, in 1959, and his best-selling tutorial guides, Play in a Day, were a major influence on many leading British musicians, such as...
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