“I have no idea what the first song I learned was. My memory has been worn down by copious LSD experiments”: Billy Squier on saving his ’59 Les Paul from a fire, the world’s greatest Marshall and why he stopped practicing

Billy Squier onstage with his Les Paul Standard.

The inimitable Billy Squier drops in on GW for a quick-fire Q&A covering all things strings, from first electric guitars to the holy grail threatened by a house fire in New York – and why he doesn’t feel the need to practice.

What was the first guitar you owned?