Cowell had fall-out with guitar teacher
March 24th, 2012 - 10:04 am ICT by IANSLondon, March 24 (IANS) Music mogul Simon Cowell has revealed that as a youngster he gave up the dream of becoming a superstar musician following a fall-out with his guitar teacher.
Cowell wanted to become a rock star while growing up. So he began learning the guitar aged 12, but his dream was shattered by a nasty argument with his tutor, reports contactmusic.com.
“I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12 but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn’t like guitar lessons and I got quite bored,” Cowell told Britain’s The Independent newspaper.
“My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee but he didn’t answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face and he sort of beat me up. And that was the last guitar lesson I had.”
“That was the turning point, David, when I decided I needed to be behind the scenes and not a musician,” he added.
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