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Sep 22, 2023 · 14. Matt Bellamy. Early musical influences helped another famous guitarist from Cambridge, Matt Bellamy to become a best-selling musician with the rock band Muse. His father had the first US #1 hit for a British band as the guitarist for The Tornadoes in the 1960s, so it’s no surprise Bellamy was interested in music.
Slash, born Saul Hudson in 1965, is a British-American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Guns N’ Roses, one of the most successful rock bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although born in London, Slash moved to Los Angeles as a child, where he became a key figure in the city’s hard rock scene.
Jul 3, 2024 · This list of famous guitar players from the United Kingdom contains some of the greatest guitar instrumentalists over the years, including guitarists who specialize in rock, metal, jazz, folk, classical, blues, acoustic and more. So, if you're a native of the UK and play guitar, then this list...
Davey Graham. David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham (originally spelled Davy Graham) (26 November 1940 – 15 December 2008) was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival. He inspired many famous practitioners of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar such as Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones, John Renbourn ...
30 Greatest British/Irish Guitarists of All Time. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 1. Eric Clapton. Eric Clapton was born in Ripley, Surrey, England, on March 30, 1945. His real father was a Canadian pilot but he didn't find that out until he was 53. When he was 2 his mother felt she was unable to look after him, so Eric then went to live ...
Dec 16, 2023 · One of the first young, white Britons to play blues-style slide guitar, his role in bringing the venerable, African-American blues idiom (and blues guitar particularly) to the forefront of rock makes him the godfather of a tradition that includes British guitar greats like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Alvin Lee and so many others.
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The Axemen Cometh – The Genesis Of The Great British Guitar Hero. By the late 60s the British Guitar Hero was in the ascendency, and blokes like Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Alvin Lee were being deified. Rock Music was growing progressively louder, hair was flowing, trousers were tightening, and guitar solos ...
