Laughin’ John Verity with his 2007 Vintage V300 at The Northill Blues Festival, July 12 2008. Photograph © Carole Verity.
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,