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From his first guitar at age 13 and his early days on the Bournemouth music scene, to his relationships and encounters in London and the US with Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, John Belushi and Eric Burdon, among others, Andy Summers proves himself a master of…

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Andy Summers is as good a writer as he is a guitar player. I’m a little jealous of that but it didn’t stop me from enjoying this book.

I loved his account of what it was like to be a guitar player back in the dawn of rock and roll, when guys like Andy (and Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton) were still figuring it all out. And then to go from rags to riches, to become an integral part of one of the biggest bands in the world at that time, The Police.

Andy doesn’t make it sound quite as…

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