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"To be honest, in 45 minutes you can't really teach somebody to write a song, but hopefully what I can do is maybe remove a little bit of the mystery of writing a song and encourage people in the direction of doing it themselves."
Those were the thoughts of Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos when he dropped into the British Music Experience recently to give a songwriting masterclass.
It's a World Heritage Site and soon to be a royal borough and now Greenwich has something else to boast about.
Discover Greenwich, which opened its doors to the public today, is a £6million visitor attraction designed to inspire visitors to learn more about the historic area.
Considering the importance of popular music in British culture the opening of the British Music Experience was long-overdue.
The interactive museum at The O2 celebrated its first anniversary last week and over 150,000 visitors have passed through its doors.
The British Music Experience hosted the latest in its series of musician masterclasses with former Stranglers' frontman Hugh Cornwell
For budding songwriters it was an excellent opportunity to quiz a man who has been in the business for 40 years and reached the very top of the tree.
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