He met Paul McCartney on a fateful bus trip to school. The guitar was not fancy by any means, and it was purchased for £3.10, which is about $150 in today’s currency. Later that year, his father bought him a Dutch Egmond flat-top acoustic guitar and his life was changed forever.
This disappointed him, and he later said the school “molded boys into feeling frightened.” In 1956, he heard Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” and became obsessed with guitars. He attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys where a music class was offered, but with no guitars. According to Pattie Boyd, George’s first wife, his mother was particularly supportive: “All she wanted for her children is that they should be happy, and she recognized that nothing made George quite as happy as making music.” His mother is said to have been hugely supportive of his musical interests from an early age. When you learn that his mother worked as a shop assistant and his father was a bus driver, his success and profound impact on music becomes even more incredible.
Born in Liverpool, England in 1943, he was the youngest of four children.
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