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SYLVAIN GABOURY/FILMMAGIC COURTESY OF JIMMY BROWN (INSET) ANA BLAKELY (GIBSONS)

COMPETELY RANDOM PHOTOS OF THE MONTH

On October 25, 2005, Charo — the great Spanish singer, actress and (most importantly) flamenco guitarist — dropped by the GW offices in NYC. Besides pointing to our Jimmy Page-fronted May 2005 issue and taking photos with a few editors, including Jimmy Brown [inset], Charo was in town promoting her 2005 album, Charo and Guitar (which, BTW, features a killer version of “Malagueña”). As part of the press proceedings, Paul Riario interviewed Charo for the February 2006 issue of Guitar World Acoustic. “One thing she said that really stuck with me was that she was a student of Andrés Segovia in her formative years,” Riario says today. “As her celebrity status grew, it would sometimes overshadow her incredible talent as a flamenco guitarist. She told me about the time she was shopping in Bloomingdales in NYC and noticed that Segovia was in the same store. While all the clerks were fawning over her, she kept pointing out to them that that man — Segovia — was the most important musician in the world. To her, he was the celebrity. She said she called out to him to come talk to her, but for unknown reasons he ignored her. She speculated that her popularity at the time might’ve made him feel uncomfortable to be seen with her. This incident broke her heart because she had so much respect for him.” — DF