May says guitars were illegal at his school, but he snuck one in and practiced Hank Marvin, Elvis and Buddy Holly songs with his friends

Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow shouldn’t have been a success. By all accounts, it was a huge risk, even in the heady, more musically adventurous era of the mid-’70s. It was an instrumental album – an instrumental jazz album.

The rare Hutchins five-neck guitars, each weighing two-and-a-half-stone, will go under the hammer at Gardiner Houlgate’s specialist guitar auction in March. Also in the sale is a Hutchins six-neck guitar called The Beast, as played by comedian Bill Bailey and spoof rock band Spinal Tap.

I realized that what I had was a bunch of gimmicks which he had come and taken away from me,” the Who guitarist told us. “I took refuge in my writing”

"Beck has no match. All through his life, he has made our jaws drop. I think we we guitarists regard Jeff in the way ... recalled how he snuck into London's Marquee Club in the late '60s to ...

Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow shouldn’t have been ... guitar accompanied by lush orchestral arrangements performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. “I turned up at George Martin’s office ...