From Spain to Streatham

Also known as Guitar Craze and the more evocative Hound Dogs and Bach Addicts this Monitor item Ken Russells third for the pioneering BBC arts strand offers a whistlestop tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways The instruments sudden popularity came about as a byproduct of the skiffle revival which led a wide range of people to form bands whose instrumentation was generally as cheap and cheerful as possible Washboards and combandpaper combinations were common and the only conventional musical instrument was often the humble acoustic guitar