One of his finest songs was written about the struggles of his friend Nick Drake, but John Martyn had his own demons, as those close to him knew all too well.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. L-John Martyn performing on stage at the 1974 Rock Proms at Olympia London on July 5 1974; R- John Martyn's 1954 Gibson Les Paul ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in Surrey in 1948 and raised in Glasgow, Iain David McGeachy developed an interest in playing guitar in his teens, aspiring ...

In the late '60s, the late British guitarist and songwriter John Martyn broke ground by leaping from acoustic folk into highly successful experiments with tape delay, wild recording scenarios, and ...

John Martyn, the British singer-songwriter-guitarist who came of age in the British folk scene in the 1960s and later developed a unique marriage of jazz and folk, died Thursday at age 60. No cause ...

John Martyn is best known as a 1970s singer and songwriter with a great deep voice and strident guitar playing. He mixed jazz with folk, was a friend and contemporary of Nick Drake, and wrote a song ...

John Martyn is a name not spoken much in the world of music. But if you're especially sensitive to the inner well of music, that place where music takes on a different shade, a place where stronger ...

1973 was a remarkable year for music, but few had a greater annus mirabilis than folk alchemist John Martyn who devoted the year to the crafting of two strange masterpieces. On the anniversary of ...

The music of the living folk legend John Martyn is highlighted in this recording in London at the Camden Palace Theatre in 1984. The Scottish born singer-songwriter/guitarist began his innovative and ...

John Martyn, 60, a British singer-songwriter whose soulful songs were covered by Eric Clapton and others, died Thursday, according to a statement on Martyn’s official website. It did not give a cause ...