BERNIE MARSDEN7 May 1951 – 24 August 2023
To the uninitiated, Bernie Marsden might have been easy to miss. In an industry of leather, motorbikes and top hats – and from a generation where ‘lead guitarist’ was shorthand for ‘show-off’ – the man once dubbed ‘British blues-rock’s secret weapon’ had the unstarry, affable, anecdote-ready demeanour of a pub regular.
But as the guitar community well knows, there was much more to Marsden, who died at the age of 72 as this issue went to press. The) through to the young musicians he mentored, the sweetness of his touch and the treasures of his superb vintage guitar collection.
