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Archive Home > 2012 > April > 23 > Weedon ‘taught the world to play the guitar’ with ‘Play in a Day’

Weedon ‘taught the world to play the guitar’ with ‘Play in a Day’

By Matt Schudel / The Bulletin
April 23, 2012

Bert Weedon, a British guitarist whose popular “Play in a Day” instructional manual introduced a generation of rock stars to the power of the guitar, died Friday at his home in Beaconsfield, England. He was 91.

Friends confirmed his death to British news agencies but did not....

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