Pioneer of British blues John Mayall couldn't read music

John Mayall never learned to read or write music.

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00:30I'm pretty pretty duff when it comes to, you know, the techniques of everything.

00:45I can't play a scale on any instrument, you know, so they're just natural

00:50outlets for my ideas.

00:57Have you got a favourite, I mean you love Boogie Woogie a lot, you got a favourite piano

01:03player there, Albert Ammons?

01:06Well they're all part of my growing up, you know, so they're people that I've admired

01:13and been interested in.

01:17I don't think you really can pinpoint it because there's too many of them.

01:22I never learnt to read or write music, so I play whatever is natural for the song.