Guitar Gods in Beds. (Bedfordshire: A Heavenly County). Mike Buchanan

      Thunderin’ Paul Carrington and the author next to a village sign in the Jura mountains, France. The photograph was taken during the second of two holidays described in the author’s bestselling travelogue Two Men in a Car (A Businessman, a Chauffeur, and Their Holidays in France). © Mike Buchanan.

      INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

      The following is an index of key terms and names used in this book. Please use the ‘search’ function on your e-reader to locate all instances where these terms are used.

      A Hard Day’s Night

      A Tune a Day Classical Guitar – Book 1

      ABC Paramount Records

      AC Milan (a football team)

      Advances, not a gift

      Adriatic coast

      Africa, North

      Agajari (Iran)

      Age Concern

      Agostini, Giacomo

      Albert, the author’s cat

      Aldeburgh

      Aldershot

      Aldershot, Billy J Kramer’s unfortunate choice of pint in

      Ali the magician, the ‘gucking chapatti twat’

      Alice’s Restaurant

      All Along the Watchtower

      Alzheimer’s disease

      Ampthill

      Anderson, Daniel

      Annie’s Song

      Antoinetta

      Antoria Les Paul copy

      Apache

      Apsley

      AQA

      Aran, Dave

      Architectural Association

      Argent

      Argentinian soldiers

      Army

      Arran jumpers

      Ashwell, Pete

      Asperger’s syndrome

      Aston, Clint

      Aston Martin Lagonda

      Athens

      Atkins, John (‘Akkie’)

      Atkins, Martyn

      Austin A40

      Austin Somerset A55

      Austin, Mike

      Auto-harp

      Average White Band

      Ayr

      Aznavour, Charles

      B, Mr, the abusive headmaster

      Babcock & Wilcox

      Bad Company

      Bad To Me

      Baez, Joan

      Bailey’s (nightclub, Watford)

      Bakewell

      ‘Baldrick’ (Marcus)

      Balfour, Dave

      Ballard, Russ

      Balliol Primary School (Kempston)

      Band members, the disappearance of

      Banjo

      Barmaids, blonde, buxom, German

      Baron Knights

      Barrett, Maurice

      Baslow

      Bath

      BBC Light Programme

      BBC Radio Cambridge

      Beagling

      Beatty, Dave

      Beck, Jeff

      Beckett, Graham

      Bedford College

      Bedford Corn Exchange

      Bedford Court #2

      Bedford Court #3

      Bedford Fire department

      Bedford Hospital

      Bedford magistrates’ court, the daring theft of chocolate digestives from

      Bedford Maternity Hospital

      Bedford Post Office

      Bedford Road School (Kempston)

      Bedford School

      Bedford rail station, sleeping in

      Bedfordshire Times

      Bedfordshire Youth Theatre

      Bedsit, ‘a shithole of a’

      Beer drinking, the ultimate sin

      Belgium (in WW2)

      Belsen concentration camp

      Benedictine monks

      Bennett, Tony

      Benson, Gerald (‘Jez’)

      Berlin

      Berlin (in WW2)

      Berry, Chuck

      Berry, Dave

      Best, George

      Betty Ford clinic

      Beverlaquas (family)

      Beverley Hills

      Biddenham, bijou

      Bielic, Martin

      Biggleswade

      Bilk, Acker

      Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings

      Billy Liar

      Bingley Nursing College

      Black Dyke Mills Band

      Black Sheep Boy

      Blackadder

      Blackmail, to finance first guitars

      Blackpool

      Blair, Captain Hamish

      Bletchley

      Bletsoe

      Blood, Sweat and Tears

      Bluegrass music

      Blues Image

      BMI (guitar shop, Bedford)

      Boar’s Head (tobacco)

      Bolton, John

      Bomb disposal (in WW2)

      Bonas

      Brian

      Celine

      Charmaine

      David

      Elaine

      Georgia

      Lucy

      Paul, Finger Pickin’ Good

      Pete

      Raney

      Steve

      Bond, Rob

      Boots (Bedford)

      Bow Wow Wow

      Bowie, David

      Boyd,