Andrew James Somers (born 31 December 1942), known professionally as Andy Summers, is an English guitarist who was a member of the rock band the Police. Summers has recorded solo albums, collaborated with other musicians, composed film scores, and exhibited his photography in galleries.\n', '

Andrew James Summers was born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. During Summers\' childhood, his family moved to Bournemouth in Dorset, England. After several years of piano lessons, he took up the guitar at the age of thirteen. By age sixteen he was playing in local clubs and by nineteen he had moved to London with his friend Zoot Money to form Zoot Money\'s Big Roll Band.\n', '

Summers\' professional career began in the mid-1960s in London as guitarist for the British rhythm and blues band Zoot Money\'s Big Roll Band, which eventually came under the influence of the psychedelic scene and evolved into the acid rock group Dantalian\'s Chariot. In September 1966, Summers was the first guitarist encountered by Jimi Hendrix after landing in the UK. The young Summers is portrayed in fiction as one of the "two main love interests" in Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne\'s 1969 book Groupie, in which he is given the pseudonym "Davey".\n', '

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