Sitting on a beaten-up sofa in the basement of The Premises studio in Hackney, Duane Eddy has come a long way since his breakthrough in the late Fifties.

The sound of Eddy's pioneering "twangy" guitar first broke into public consciousness in 1957 with the hit Rebel Rouser and three years later NME had named him as "world music personality". Fifty years on his inimitable sound continues to reverberate.

Eddy's influence has been acknowledged by numerous celebrated fellow guitarists, including George ...