20 April 2012(2012-04-20) (aged 91) Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
Genres
Jazz, blues, pop
Occupation(s)
Musician, guitarist
Instrument(s)
Guitar
Years active
1939–2012
Labels
Dansan Records
Parlophone
Top Rank
HMV
Fontana
Grosvenor
Polydor
Website
http://www.bertweedon.com
Musical artist
Herbert Maurice William Weedon, OBE (10 May 1920 – 20 April 2012) was an English guitarist whose style of 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, Play in a Day, was a major influence on many leading British musicians, such as Eric Clapton, Brian May and Paul McCartney.[1][2][3] He was awarded an OBE in 2001 for his "services to music".[1]
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the 1930s, he led groups such as the Blue Cumberland Rhythm Boys, and BertWeedon and His Harlem Hotshots, before making his first solo appearance at East...
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by guitarist BertWeedon released in 1976 on the Warwick label. It reached number one in the UK Albums Chart in November 1976 making Weedon the first solo...
achieving high sales with compilations. Among these were Slim Whitman, BertWeedon, Glen Campbell and The Beach Boys, who remained at number one for ten...
and got his first electric guitar at age 12 after seeing guitarist BertWeedon play live. He was in "Joe and the Teens" and "Tony Rivers & the Castaways"...
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singles in the early 1960s, he released "Twist Me Pretty Baby" with BertWeedon in 1962 (HMV-45 POP 989); the label's credit reads "Shouts by Kenny Lynch"...
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Rediffusion London between 1959 and 1968, working alongside Wally Whyton and BertWeedon and featuring the puppet characters Pussy Cat Willum, Ollie Beak and...
life forever. With a proper instrument, Butler learned chords from the BertWeedon book Play in a Day and saved enough money for a new Höfner Colorama electric...
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2003) 1919 – Ella T. Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1981) 1920 – BertWeedon, English guitarist (d. 2012) 1922 – David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman...
Harris "Rockin' At The Ritz" by Ray Campi "Rockin' At The Roundhouse" by BertWeedon "Rolling Around Piccadilly" by George Formby "Romford Bypass" by Alexei...
Hertfordshire, in 1945. He learned how to play guitar at the age of 12 from a BertWeedon manual. His first gig was at The Mentmore Pen Factory, in Stevenage (September...
On his return in 1959, Hatch began producing Top Rank artists such as BertWeedon, the then unknown Adam Faith ("Ah, Poor Little Baby"), Josh MacRae (together...
Harrison auditioned for the Quarrymen, playing "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" by BertWeedon, before being admitted as a member of the band. Paul McCartney has stated...
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