Old music: Santo & Johnny – Sleep Walk

Johnny Farina tells the story of his greatest hit – and how it inspired the BeatlesThere was no shortage of instrumental guitar records in the late 50s and 60s. In the UK there were the Shadows, while in the US groups such as the Ventures had a string of hits, with the surfing craze spurring myriad garage bands to have a stab at a chink of the limelight.But Sleep Walk isn't like the others. Its funereal pace, that unexpected minor-fourth chord and the otherworldly steel guitar still melts the ...

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