Neil Young gave Meryl Streep a guitar lesson

Hollywood actress Meryl Streep says she got tips on how to play the guitar from Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.

Revealing how the pair met after being introduced by the director of her latest movie Ricki And The Flash, in which she plays a musician, the actress said that she learnt to play the instrument from Young in a 45-minute private lesson, reports femalefirst.co.uk

Talking about her meeting with the singer, she said: “He gave me some advice. He saw all the amplifiers and cords and said ‘What is this [expletive]?’. He said crank it up to 11. You’ve got to turn it up, turn it up loud.

“I didn’t know how to play guitar, I have been singing for a long time, but not really rock ‘n’ roll... nobody asked me to. I had my first guitar lesson when I said I would do the movie.

“So Jonathan [Demme], the director says, ‘Come by, Neil would love to meet you and maybe I’ll get him to give you a guitar lesson.’ So my first lesson was 45 minutes with Neil. He is amazing... it’s cool.”

The 66-year-old actress talked about it during her appearance on the American late-night talk show The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.