Strings Attached

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John Williams is indisputably one of the most accomplished & celebrated musicians of his generation. A master of the classical genre he has been pivotal in bringing the guitar to a wider audience with the group SKY & through collaborations involving the music of South America Africa & jazz. The product of unprecedented cooperation from Williams his family friends & professional associates Without Strings is the first telling of the fascinating life of a world-renowned musician & equally the story of a man & the making of his identity. John Williams might never have come to the guitar allowing his extraordinary talent to blossom without the foresight ambition & subtle discipline of his father & teacher Len Williams & to a lesser extent his mother Melaan. Williams has almost certainly exceeded any dream his father dared have for him as a classical guitarist. But while fulfilling that ambition did he also in his own quiet way rebel against the authoritarian nature of his father? As it tells Johns story this book challenges its readers to consider the influence of his father for good & ill as it contributed to making John Williams the successful complex & compassionate man he was to become.