The Story of the Guitar (Documentary)
This Time It's Personal. Episode 3Alan Yentob presents the final instalment in a three-part series examining how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument. Famous guitarists talk about how the guitar has changed their lives, and how each set about discovering their own sound. Interviewees include Muse's Matt Bellamy, Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Pete Townshend,
Slash and the Edge from U2, and many more.
The final episode of The Story of the Guitar, Alan Yentob's three-part series about the 20th century's most democratic musical instrument, turned to the people who play it, and was full of unexpected pleasures.
You only have to look at Slash, the legendary guitarist from Guns N' Roses, to feel better, because he delivers such a perfect self-parody of rocker pomp. But elsewhere it was what the guitarists did and said that lifted your mood, whether it was Johnny Marr pinning down the way in which the guitar could bypass verbal communication with the lovely line "It's like turning your daydreams into sound", or the Edge, standing next to something that looked like a Nasa control centre, and tweaking a simple plucked string into a stadium-filling swirl of sound. I also enjoyed the archive clip of Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's guitar god, being interviewed by Hugh Wheldon after a performance with a schoolboy skiffle band. "Are you going to be a musician when you grow up?" Wheldon asked, all tweedy condescension. "Well, no, I want to do biological research," Page piped back, as Brylcreem-neat as the boy off the front of a Meccano box. Is he a disappointed man, I wonder?
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