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When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.