BOUGHT & SOLD
What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money?
“Well, from the age of 11 I started playing in my dad’s band, and we were playing at weddings and village hall dances and things. I got paid the same as the rest of the guys, which was anywhere between £3.50 to £4 – £4 was a good gig, we never hit the £5 mark. At the time I had a really terrible guitar with a real cheese-cutter action, but I just saved up and eventually I had 100 quid and so I went with a friend to the West End of London to a music shop at Centerpoint. The guy in the shop says to me, ‘Hey, what are you boys doing?’ And my friend said, ‘He wants to
