Some common themes here.
As I posted in my intro post, I started on guitar @ 12 (my twin brother started on bass the same day).
The Beatles and Stones were the main offenders.
Alice Cooper & Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd when in high school.

Reached 16 and dumped the guitar in favour of saxophone.
Set myself up as a busker, with a view to getting gigs...a sideline in CD's.
Being doing that now for 7 years.
A few months back now I got back into learning the guitar.

Meanwhile my brother hasn't done too bad.
I got a mention on his wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_P._Casey

cheers, Mark.