Will Ludford

Early life

He was born in Dublin on 19 September 1948 and moved to the United Kingdom when he was 5 years of age .The family lived on an American air base in Wing Buckinghamshire]] where his father worked. When Will was 7 the family moved to Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire]] and Will went to Brooklands school...http://www.brooklandsschool.co.uk/website

Career

Will has been playing guitar for some time, starting in his first band in Leighton Buzzard with school friends. They played at local school functions and friends parties. They played music by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix etc. When Will left school he worked at Camden Motors] Garage, serving petrol and saved enough to buy his first Guitar. Will also worked at a music shop located in Bridge street in Leighton Buzzard, which was owned by Richard Watts, of Simms Watts Fame... Here he often jammed with friends Art Nouveau who became Kajagoogoo.

He then joined other local bands and became the guitarist in the Rock Band Diamond LiL who did very well on the college circuit in the UK. Will also performed some session work at the now legendary Chalk Farm Studios in London. There he met and worked with the truly talented Alton Ellis and Sly and Robbie, very professional people and musician. Will says that one of the highlights of his life was being at the Beatles Apple Headquarters in Saville Row, where he met and chatted with the Beatles.....George Harrison encouraged him to go on and further explore his music, he describes George as the nicest man he ever met in music.

In his career Will has worked with numerous well known bands and musicians such as Tiny Tim, Alton Ellis, George Harrison, The Barron Knights, The Detroit Emeralds, Joe Meek and was privileged to have jammed with Jimi Hendrix. Having several awards presented to him for his music, Will was humbled to be voted worlds best guitarist for 2014 by XLRadio Europe.

Will’s album https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/addicted/id1217500908 "Addicted" reached No.1. in the UK Reverb Nation Independent Chart and No.5 in the American Air radio charts. Will has his own recording studio at his castle and looks forward to recording more albums. Will Ludford is signed to https://www.facebook.com/bigbuzzardrecords/ ..The Big Buzzard Music Group... and he continues to write and record his music with new releases due in 2017.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/addicted/id1217500908.