George Benson - biography

“I listen to other guitar players, yeah.  It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places.  There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories.  I try and keep up.”

“As my career has progressed, I’ve had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet.  But that doesn’t change my desire to entertain folks.  That’s really who I am.”

“My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing.  I didn’t imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.”

“I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.”

“The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.”

George Benson has appeared in the following films:
Convoy (1940)
The October Man (1947)
Helter Skelter (1949)
The Lost People (1949)
Cage of Gold (1950)
Highly Dangerous (1950)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
Appointment with Venus (1951)
Pool of London (1951)
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
The Captain’s Paradise (1953)
Aunt Clara (1954)
Doctor in the House (1954)
Three’s Company (1954)
Value for Money (1955)
Dracula (1958)
Left Right and Centre (1959)
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s (1960)
A Home of Your Own (1964)
The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery (1966)
Journey Into Darkness (1968)
The Strange Affair (1968)
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)