Simon McBride
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- Thomas Hardy of Wessex
- Private Ireland
- English House
- Nautical Style
- Pepper's busy day
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As both a virtuoso guitarist and an Irishman (Hailing from near Belfast, Northern Ireland) comparisons are often made with Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore, though Simon sounds like neither in particular. McBride started playing the guitar when he was ten. By age 15 he entered Guitarist Magazine’s Young Guitarist of The Year, a performance competition staged that year at Wembley Conference Centre, which he won. Less than a year later, a few months after his sixteenth birthday <a href="https://www.
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- human
- Given name
- Simon
- Family name
- McBride
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Belfast
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- guitar
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- 2022 Lieder am See - Deep Purple - Simon McBride - by 2eight - ZSC9204.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1979-04-09
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