# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bert-weedon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:22:57.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bert-weedon"
name: "Bert Weedon"
slug: "bert-weedon"
description: "Herbert Maurice William Weedon was an English guitarist whose style of playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a hit record in the UK singles chart, in 1959, and his best-selling tutorial, Play in a Day, was a major influence on many leading British musicians, such as Eric Clapton, Brian May and Paul McCartney. He was awarded an OBE in 2001 for services to music."
tagline: "English guitarist (1920–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Bert_Weedon1.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1920-05-10"
deathDate: "2012-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "nm0917258"
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    url:       "http://www.bertweedon.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump