HANK MARVIN
Brian May on the profound influence the underrated Shadows leader and prototype guitar hero.
Hank
Marvin: the man who made a generation of kids want to play guitar.
DEREK TRUCKS: KEVIN NIXON; GETTY x2
“Guitar was the work of the devil to our headmaster at Hampton Grammar school. And we actually had to hide, y’know? We would play in the cycle sheds after school round the back. Or we actually managed to make a little guitar club in the library, where nobody ever went [laughs]. So we had kind of a little guitar clinic, I suppose, of people who wanted to bring in stuff that they’d heard and wanted to play. We’d be like: ‘Who played the new Shadows record first?’“Guitar was the work of the devil to our headmaster at Hampton Grammar school. And we actually had to hide, y’know? We would play in the cycle sheds after school round the back. Or we actually managed to make a little guitar club in the library, where nobody ever went [laughs]. So we had kind of a little guitar clinic, I suppose, of people who wanted to bring in stuff that they’d heard and wanted to play. We’d be like: ‘Who played the new Shadows record first?’