{"id":3974,"date":"2025-03-14T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzz7.info\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2025-03-14T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:33:32","slug":"lockdown-inspires-britains-got-talent-guitarist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/?p=3974","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown inspires Britain&#8217;s Got Talent guitarist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Many of us had socially-distanced street gatherings with our neighbours during the Covid lockdowns &#8211; but it is unlikely that many of these ended up inspiring a potential future rock star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">For Olly Pearson, who was seven at the time, seeing a neighbour play guitar during one of these get-togethers was life-changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Now aged 11, he is heading for the semi-finals of Britain&#8217;s Got Talent after getting a golden buzzer for his rip-roaring audition &#8211; a medley of rock classics from bands including Queen, AC\/DC and Van Halen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Each of the talent show judges can use the golden buzzer for an act they believe is exceptional &#8211; with Amanda Holden pressing it for Olly during auditions in Blackpool.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-12 fcCDwR\" data-testid=\"byline-new-contributors\">\n<div class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-5 evAEAB\">\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-7 kItaYD\">Sarah Easedale<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-b42e7a8f-8 bTSIhT\">BBC News<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us had socially-distanced street gatherings with our neighbours during the Covid lockdowns &#8211; but it is unlikely that many of these ended up inspiring a potential future rock star. For Olly Pearson, who was seven at the time, seeing a neighbour play guitar during one of these get-togethers was life-changing. Now aged 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}