Bert Weedon
One of the stumbling blocks to the growth of rock & roll in England during the 1950s, apart from the larger cultural differences with America, lay in the fact that the country had no popular guitar heroes, and no jazz or blues tradition to draw on from which one could easily emerge. The only exception to this rule was Bert Weedon, a guitar instrumentalist whose virtuoso playing on the electric instrument constituted just about the only socially acceptable incarnation of the instrument for many adults. His pop-instrumental music, for all of its virtuosity, was too tame to attract many teens who were listening to Lonnie Donegan, but the classically trained guitarist's command of the instrument and the offer of a guitar study course in his name was a way in for kids who weren't ready to start mimicking Scotty Moore or Buddy Holly, much less Les Paul, Charlie Christian, or Django Reinhardt, to get to know the instrument. Musically, he was the guitarist equivalent to Roger Williams or Ferrante & Teicher, and by the end of the 1950s, rock & roll had produced its own guitar heroes in the Shadows' Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, and other axemen in various bands who followed, not to mention session man Big Jim Sullivan. Weedon, however, remained a sentimental favorite and a perennially popular figure in England, and was still recording guitar-driven instrumental versions of Broadway and Hollywood hits in the 1990s. He died in April 2012 at home in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England; Bert Weedon was 91 years old.
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Bert Weedon Gold
Rock - Paru chez KPM Main Series le 18 nov. 2003
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Guitar Boogie Shuffle Best
Rock - Paru chez Master Classics Records le 1 mai 2011
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Playing His Best! (Remastered)
Jazz - Paru chez Master Tape Records le 24 avr. 2020
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Big Beat Boogie
Jazz - Paru chez Red Cab Records le 17 janv. 2011
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Apache (UK Chart Top 40 - No. 24)
Musiques du monde - Paru chez Music Manager le 19 déc. 2018
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All Time Instrumental Greats
Pop - Paru chez Play Digital le 1 juin 2015
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Stranger Than Fiction
Jazz - Paru chez Firefly Entertainment le 2 janv. 2013
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The Guitar Teacher - Bert Weedon's Masterclass
Rock - Paru chez Stardom Records le 30 juin 2023
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Ferry to Hong Kong / Jealousy (Mono Version)
Pop - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Presenting Bert Weedon: The King Size Guitar (Deluxe Edition)
Jazz - Paru chez Universal Digital Enterprises le 26 déc. 1960
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Bert Weedon - Mr Guitar
Pop - Paru chez Westmill le 25 mars 2016
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Honky Tonk Guitar Archive '61 (Stereo)
Jazz - Paru chez The Digital Gramophone le 16 août 2012
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Archive '60
Jazz - Paru chez The Digital Gramophone le 9 août 2012
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Teenage Guitar / Blue Guitar (Mono Version)
Pop - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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