[font size="5"]Admirable Nelson[/font]



[font size="3"]Many rock and pop stars have a brief period of success and drift into obscurity. Some may return to their day jobs whilst others try to rekindle their long lost glory on retro package tours. Very few progress and develop to enjoy world-wide respect as a guitarist, singer or songwriter.[/font]

Wakefield-born Bill Nelson has achieved all that and he is still prolific. He turns out an impressive number of unique experimental albums each year from his sleepy village, near York.

He is a musician who has absorbed influences from his hero Duane Eddy to Jimi Hendrix and musical styles ranging from Glenn Miller to John Cage, and from glam rock to ambient.

Never seeing himself as a rock star, he is just a musician pure and simple who wants to keep developing in his chosen art form. He attended Wakefield College of Art in the early 1960s, one of the club of art school rockers who switched careers to music; they include Pete Townshend, Keith Richards and Ray Davies.

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Recently he was described as ‘one of the most underrated guitarists of the seventies art rock movement.’ Last year, he was recognized with the Visionary prize at the Progressive Music Awards.

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