RIP Bert Weedon

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Jim Ashby
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RIP Bert Weedon

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The writer of 'Play in a day' and 'Play every day' passed away today just shy of his 92nd birthday.
From today's Daily Telegraph
'The list of rock stars who have declared Weedon’s guide gave them their first grasp of their instrument stands testimony to its practical genius. It is one of the sacred tomes of the birth of British rock.
The teenage John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison all started off with Play In A Day, so Weedon could certainly claim to be a key figure in the genesis of the Beatles, and the subsequent dominance of guitar based popular music in the Sixties. Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Steve Hillage and Brian May were all acolytes. '
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