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Pete Doherty remembers Amy Winehouse’s unique guitar playing style
Pete Doherty remembers Amy Winehouse’s unique guitar playing style
Amy Winehouse's passion for guitar was key to her distinctive songwriting style
A little-known 2004 interview saw Amy Winehouse wax lyrical about all things guitar
“All there was left for me in Minneapolis was to work for Prince, and I had no desire to – I’d heard too many stories. I got bored… I quit playing guitar for two years”: How Binky Griptite reinvented himself – and ended up playing with Amy Winehouse
Partly inspired by a copy of Guitar World he tried to steal, the Dap-Kings’ former rhythm powerhouse started out as a shredder, before he studied the rhythm guitar greats – landing gigs with Janet Jackson and Amy Winehouse along the way
Watch Amy Winehouse play I Heard Love Is Blind on her Strat unaccompanied in 2004 Fender promo
Winehouse often took the stage with a Stratocaster early in her career
Guitars played by David Gilmour, the Edge, Eddie Van Halen, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton and more rake in huge figures in all-star auction
Clapton's $625,000 Martin D-45 was the highest-selling instrument at Julien’s Auctions mammoth Icons & Idols event, closely followed by The Edge's Gibson Explorer, which went for $437,500
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