My guitar interests started like everyone else my age, when I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show back on Feb 9th 1964. Not only did records sales mushroom from that point onward, also the sale of guitars in the world started to mushroom 10 fold. The British invasion had already brought us the Tornadoes Telstar a couple of years earlier, but even more importantly was the Shadows Apache a year previous in 1960. Americans were more familiar with the Ventures and their version of Apache.
Telstar was a huge success here, but the Shadows Apache slipped by us somehow because we here in America were already knee-deep in the hoopla of the Rock Instrumental/Surf music phenomena with Dick Dale, The Ventures, Link Ray, Duane Eddy, Bill Doggett's Honky Tonk, The Safaris, Sandy Nelson's Drums, the Chantay's and the list goes on and on.
So, Hank Marvin was a back study, but needs some kind of favorable mention as he seemed to be leading the Rock Instrumental world from the UK and we didn't even know much about his Wonderful World of guitar playing back in his heyday. Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Kieth Richards, Ritchie Blackmore and many 100's more of the British Invasion rock stars mentions Hank Marvin as their original Inspiration to play the guitar.
And since we mentioned Hank Marvin, I can only suggest that Bob Bogle and Don Wilson of the Ventures who influenced many people on this side of the pond to play guitar even before the Beatles came on the scene
The red Strat you see in the video may have been the very first Fender Guitar ever sold in the UK.
