ABOUT THE ARTIST – Peter Williams
Peter was born in Wales in 1946. For his ninth birthday his mother bought him a brand-new guitar a ‘Martin Colletti’ for £8. An acoustic guitar which was just impossible to play with the strings sitting high up above the finger board. Sitting in front of the TV every Tuesday evening, waiting for Bert Weedon to show him how to play the instrument, using Bert's famous ‘Play In A Day’ guitar tuition method. The programme was ‘TUESDAY RENDEZVOUS’. Peter was too poor to own a set of pitch pipes to tune the guitar, the old method of picking up the phone was used as the dialling tone was the ‘G’ note for the third string. Once the third string was in tune, it was easy to tune the rest of the strings. Bert later became a mentor and the two became great friends. Joining a band called THE BOYS', Peter appeared regularly on a religious show called ‘THE SUNDAY BREAK’ (UK) playing some of Cliff Richard’s songs and making them work to a selection of Hymns. With Peter having switched to bass guitar, he later joined PETER GRAHAM AND THE GAZELLES who went on to back several pop hit artists of the day. Peter later joined MIKE & THE INVADERS with singer MIKE HUGHES who could sing ELVIS songs which made the band very popular. In 1962 Peter was fortunate to see ‘BILLY FURY and the TORNADOS’, a great inspiration for some of his own later recording work, including his two instrumental albums BILLY FURY – ALWAYS REMEMBERED, under the guidance of CHRIS ELEY from THE SOUND OF FURY Fan Club. To date he has recorded over 20 instrumental albums, over 500 songs his moniker is ‘MY VOICE IS MY GUITAR’ which is because his guitar playing sits where the melody line or vocal would be on every recording. His best selling GREAT TV & MOVIE WESTERN THEMES to albums dedicated to artists ELVIS PRESLEY, ROY ORBISON. DEL SHANNON. There are Jukebox albums with a whole host of hit songs, from Country music to Pop, Doo Wop, Rock and some original material too. And there’s much more to come from this virtuoso guitarist. His love of music of all genres is unending. www.peterwilliamsguitar.co.uk
GRAHAM HUNTER (2024) (c)
Entertainment Artist Management/Consultancy