David Michael Gordon Graham, known as Davey Graham (originally Davy Graham), b. 22 November 1940 in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, is a guitarist who is credited with sparking the folk-rock revolution in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. He inspired many of the famous practitioners of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar, such as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, Paul Simon and even Jimmy Page, who heavily based his solo "White Summer" on Graham's "She moved thru' the Bizarre/Blue Raga". Graham is best-known for his acoustic instrumental, Anji. Biography Davy Graham was born to a Guyanaese mother and a Scottish father and he took up the guitar at the age of 12. As a teenager, he was strongly influenced by a guitar player called Steve Benbow, who had travelled widely with the army and played a guitar style influenced by Moroccan music. At th

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