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Guitar has been good to me. It's involved me with interesting people such as Marianne Faithfull and Mark Knopfler and has been with me to some interesting places including 10,000 miles round the U.S.A. during a gap-year scholarship there, where immersion in American musical forms from Jugbands to Musicals gave my playing and knowledge of popular music an immediacy: it was a move from monochrome (as the early 60's were here...) to technicolour. And there were practical benefits: you could still find old Gibsons on thrift shop walls... Back at University in Southampton, I led the Antiq Spasms band through a career in television, concert and theatre, featuring an exuberant almanac of popular music from Parlour song to Spike Jones. Following a first degree in Social Science and Philosophy, I became a college lecturer specialising in those subjects, but became increasingly involved in theatre and music teaching. This bore fruit both practically: running innovative guitar tuition programmes..