It was Australia's loss when Leonard Williams brought his family to Britain in 1952 to open a guitar school in London Leonard Williams emigrated to Australia in the late 1930s where he met Marlaan, a Chinese/Australian, daughter of a well known Melbourne barrister through their mutual love of jazz, and later married her

The first, published blues music was 'Dallas Blues' in 1912, but the blues predates that by at least 20 years and possibly a great deal more The first recordings of blues music were made for research purposes and have since been lost along with any record of the precise where when and why

According to Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson was 'the most important blues singer who ever lived' He is number five in Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, but the man himself is still part legend, part mystery

There is a weird and wonderfully shaped building known as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum It isn't in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Memphis

Guitars have in one form or another been around for thousands of years There are paintings in Egyptian tombs showing instruments which are similar