GUITAR hero Andrew Gilding conquered the strum of all fears by playing in his local church band.
Now he has gone from a depressive recluse to an unlikely star on the oche and a riff diamond with a collection of replica sixstrings as used by Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin.
Judge a book by its cover and you would have Gilding, 53, down as a bank clerk or a verger not a closet headbanger but the UK Open champion has become a poster boy for throwing off the shackles of depression.
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