With the various "rock revivals" of the 70s, Weedon was once again in demand, making the hit albums Rockin' at the Roundhouse (1970) and 22 Golden Guitar Greats (1976), a No 1 that sold more than 1m copies. Beginning with Tommy Steele's 1956 debut Rock With the Caveman, he contributed guitar solos to numerous tracks by Marty Wilde, Adam Faith, Laurie London and others.

And I went to the specialist, and I could ill afford a West End specialist, who said, 'Can you go to Switzerland, Mr Weedon? He'd borrowed a bowler hat, God alone knows where he got the bowler hat from but he'd got it, and a rolled umbrella.In 1987 Weedon issued a video version which promised that "a beginner can play in a group in only 25 minutes". Stapleton planned to broadcast the song and wanted to be sure that Weedon could reproduce the guitar sound. As well as his hits and TV appearances at a crucial time in modern music history, Weedon's best-known contribution to British guitar style is his tutorial guide Play in a Day, first published in 1957, [4] which many stars claim was a major influence on their learning and playing. It's at the Paris Cinema which is a downstairs studio, he said 'He's here,' and there was a sort of pregnant silence.

Now, again, I'd never heard the word philosophy but it's something that intensely interested me, has done ever since. For years, Weedon was the perfect session man, especially for early British rock and roll acts like Billy Fury and Tommy Steele.He soon graduated to the semi-professional Dixieland jazz group Harry Gold's Pieces of Eight and performed with the violinist Stéphane Grappelli and the pianist George Shearing in the early 1940s. When Weedon invited anyone needing help to play the guitar to drop him a line, sackfuls of mail arrived at Associated Rediffusion, who had to print and mail out thousands of instructional leaflets. Married to Maggie Weedon, he had two sons, Lionel and Geoffrey, eight grandchildren, and a great-grandson. Herbert Maurice William Weedon, OBE (10 May 1920– 20 April 2012) was an English guitarist whose style of playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. Brian May stated: "There's not a guitarist in Britain from my generation who doesn't owe him a great debt of gratitude.

His first chart hit in 1959 Guitar Boogie Shuffle began a path that saw him becoming a major influence. Just to pluck a few names out of the air – Brian May, Keith Richards, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. The manual Play in a Day was the bible for generations of budding guitarists in the 1950s and 1960s.In the 1950s, Weedon played on hundreds of recording sessions for most of the leading singers and bands of the era, including Alma Cogan, Dickie Valentine and Frankie Vaughan. He was seen in Slater's Bazaar, the first TV advertising magazine, and from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s he was a regular in a series of children's shows: Small Time, Tuesday Rendezvous and Five O'Clock Club, with Muriel Young, Wally Whyton and the glove puppet Ollie Beak. In November 1976, Weedon made number one, for one week, in the UK Albums Chart with 22 Golden Guitar Greats, a compilation album of guitar solos released on the Warwick label. Eventually I had saved up enough money and I went to the man and I said in a very haughty way: 'I'll have that guitar'.