Bert Weedon's Play in a Day: Guide to Modern Guitar Playing (Guitar)

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More than an hour after his show he was still signing autographs and talking with many fans, young and old. It's at the Paris Cinema which is a downstairs studio, he said 'He's here,' and there was a sort of pregnant silence. Weedon placed a lot of emphasis on control of tone, and wanted to make the guitar the star of his music. Married to Maggie Weedon, he had two sons, Lionel and Geoffrey, eight grandchildren, and a great-grandson.

Beginning with Tommy Steele's 1956 debut Rock With the Caveman, he contributed guitar solos to numerous tracks by Marty Wilde, Adam Faith, Laurie London and others. With the various "rock revivals" of the 70s, Weedon was once again in demand, making the hit albums Rockin' at the Roundhouse (1970) and 22 Golden Guitar Greats (1976), a No 1 that sold more than 1m copies. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.For years, Weedon was the perfect session man, especially for early British rock and roll acts like Billy Fury and Tommy Steele.

The manual Play in a Day was the bible for generations of budding guitarists in the 1950s and 1960s. It was the first ever hit guitar record on an English label and the first ever hit guitar record by an English man to get into the Hit Parade. Stapleton planned to broadcast the song and wanted to be sure that Weedon could reproduce the guitar sound. As well as his hits and TV appearances at a crucial time in modern music history, Weedon's best-known contribution to British guitar style is his tutorial guide Play in a Day, first published in 1957, [4] which many stars claim was a major influence on their learning and playing. He broadcast frequently on the variety show Workers' Playtime, appeared with the Big Ben Banjo Band and the Palm Court violinist Max Jaffa and later led the resident band on Easy Beat.Now, again, I'd never heard the word philosophy but it's something that intensely interested me, has done ever since. So I still play the Fender, but now I use the Parker guitar as well because it's so light and I can stand up and do the show without bending over, which for an old man is a marvellous asset.

After he was discharged from hospital, doctors advised him to avoid smoky dancehalls and nightclubs, so he switched the focus of his career to records, radio and television.When Weedon invited anyone needing help to play the guitar to drop him a line, sackfuls of mail arrived at Associated Rediffusion, who had to print and mail out thousands of instructional leaflets. Offers tips for selecting the right guitar, the correct amplifier, how to hold your instrument and plenty of tunes and exercises to get to grips with. In 2003 he received an apology and damages from the BBC after the publicity for a radio programme had inexplicably claimed that he learned to play the guitar while in jail. He was seen in Slater's Bazaar, the first TV advertising magazine, and from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s he was a regular in a series of children's shows: Small Time, Tuesday Rendezvous and Five O'Clock Club, with Muriel Young, Wally Whyton and the glove puppet Ollie Beak. As a teenager, he was the leader of such groups as the Blue Cumberland Rhythm Boys and Bert Weedon and His Harlem Hotshots.