Approx 1973, after school round my mates house.
He was a big "The Shadows" fan, so he'd just got a cheap electric guitar.
I used his ropey old spanish guitar, and together we struggled to master
"FBI" and "Apache"
Satisfied with our progress, we then studiously worked our way through the bulk of The Shadows' greatest hits.

We then roped in a couple of schoolmates and started trying to learn to play as a group
with Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" & "C'mon Everybody"
The Beatles/Stones "I Wanna be Your Man"
and Marc Bolan/T.Rex's "Hot Love" and "Ride a White Swan"
Plus a few more of the usual old 1950s Rock 'n' Roll standards....

and oddly enough, some Donovan and Lindisfarne songs*..

[*there you go, my 'Folk Roots' !!!]

Couple of years later when we were good enough, we became basicaly a Dr Feelgood/Wilko Johnson covers band.

A perfect foundation course for the punk band we were to become a short while after.........

The teenage dream of being local College Disco and Town & Village Hall legends...

Shame it all got so serious, with predatory wannabe managers and dodgy record label deals...