Ranked consistently among the top ten greatest rock and roll guitarists of all
time, American musician Duane Allman achieved massive popularity with The Allman
Brothers Band in the late 1960s and played regularly as a key session guitarist
with top rock and blues stars. He died in a motorcycle accident in Georgia, USA
in 1971 aged 24. With the band, he was admitted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
and honoured for Lifetime Achievement by the Grammy Awards.
Born in Tennessee, he spent time in Florida as a child but summered with his
grandmother in Nashville where he learned to p...