Allan Holdsworth
| Born | August 6, 1946 |
| Hometown | Bradford, England |
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“I was horrified when I saw the box set. I went ballistic!” Allan Holdsworth’s life in music
- The influential guitarist died days after the release of 12-disc collection The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever! – but ahead of the launch he had a lot to say about that and many other things
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Then Barbara Met Alan, review: a joyously defiant story of how disabled people rejected pity
There was a scrappy, unconventional quality to Then Barbara Met Alan (BBC Two), Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr’s true story of the disability rights activists Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth. At first, this seemed to work against it, not helped by the mere 70-minute running time.
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The creative team behind Jack Thorne’s BBC/Netflix drama Then Barbara Met Alan has rewritten the rules on disability representation for the Crip Camp-esque drama about two UK trailblazers whose campaigning led to the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act. Producer Dragonfly TV compiled a report that has been passed to the BBC and super-indie Banijay after setting […]
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Allan Holdsworth, Progressive Guitar Virtuoso, Dies at 70
Allan Holdsworth, known as a guitarist’s guitarist for his progressive rock and jazz fusion work with bands including Soft Machine, Gong, and U.K., died on Sunday, according to a Facebook post from his daughter Louise. He was 70. Born in Bradford, England, Holdsworth had lived in Southern California for several decades. His complex guitar work... <a href="https://variety.com/2017/music/news/allan-holdsworth-dead-dies-progressive-fusion-guitar-1202031666/" title="Read Allan Holdsworth, Progressiv
