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A sixteen-year-old Steve Diggle buys a Spanish guitar for £6 and starts practising in the Coronation Street-style house in Moston where he lives. With his new instrument, he learns a few chords from a neighbour, who plays Lindisfarne covers on the local pub circuit. Diggle is heavily influenced by John Lennon but gets a more immediate buzz listening to the thrashing guitar sound of the Who’s Pete Townshend. Diggle’s dad soon buys him an old Hayman bass guitar and a 120-watt Sound City amplifier; he makes his own crude but effective speaker cabinet with wood, which costs him £4.