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Influential guitarist Bert Weedon dies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17781762

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Influential guitarist Bert Weedon, best known for creating the popular tutorial manual Play In A Day, has died aged 91.

Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Brian May are among the stars who learned to play guitar from his books.

Born in east London, in May 1920, he had been ill for some time and died at his home in Beaconsfield, his friend John Adrian said.

He was awarded an OBE in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to music.

Aged 12, Weedon picked up his first guitar after convincing his father to buy him a second-hand one from a London market.

As a child, he studied classical guitar - a grounding which later enabled him to play any genre of guitar music at sight.

Long before today's "legends", "divas" and "icons", there was, simply, Bert Weedon ..... RIP ..... :cool:

My dad loves his music. May he RIP.

You certainly do not get artists like him any more.

He certainly appears to have influenced some great names in music, I really like that track that Ammi posted above. First time I have heard it.

This is one of Bert's I most remember:

Youtube video