hard to explain to civilians.

but basically the main objection is this:-

for untold thousands of us throughout England, and millions worldwide, the guitar is like the true cross used to be.

Its just about all we have left to believe in. It puts a glint in the eye and a tilt in the kilt. It is redemption and salvation.

It makes shit lives tolerable, shit jobs survivable.

It provides us with heroes and saints, for lots of us its a way of making a living, for others its something to live for.

Coleridge called church bells 'the poor man's only music.' and Joni Mitchel called the strings of her guitar 'the hexagram of heaven'- and I suppose that is what I'm driving at.

In a gross and materialistic world - the guitar is a voice of spirituality and passion that many of us hear.

I'm not sure that Alan Yentob has even the noticed the fire this instrument lights within people.