Chris’s pride and joy, seen here—a cherry red sunburst Ibanez guitar—was cracked in a railway platform/breeze/gravity interface incident. In the midst of the pandemic, 40 years later, he found a 12-string 1970s original in a Greek market. Buying it brought him back to writing songs after 20 years. Photo: Chris Lillicrap
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