30 DECEMBER 2006, Page 15

Going solo

From Rory Knight Bruce

Sir: Marcus Berkmann, for so long the most intelligent of pop critics, should not be shy in nominating his all-time favourite guitar solos (Arts, 23/30 December). Indeed, Spectator readers should send him their nominations so that he could make a book out of them. My own would be that of David ‘Clem’ Clempson from Colisseum on ‘Lost Angeles’, recorded live in Brighton in the early 1970s. When I last spoke to Clempson, he was playing pool in a roughhouse in Shepherd’s Bush and working on a ‘project’ — which I hope was true.

Rory Knight Bruce Crediton, Devon