Space-age guitars lead to Strawberry Fields Forever
Music and electronics have gone hand in hand for me from the very beginning. The folk songs we were taught in junior school didn’t grab me, and the first tunes that did – when I was 15 – were two guitar instrumentals: Apache by Cliff Richard’s band The Shadows and Riders In The Sky by The Ramrods. Both made gloriously excessive use of echo machines, and I wanted one.
Around that time, in 1960, Britain was still peppered with shops and dumps selling and .
