[1] In his childhood he learned to play the violin, switching to the guitar at the age of 12, being influenced by the music of American blues artists such as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters.

[2] Moving to London from Devon in the mid-1960s (he retained a soft West Country burr to his voice for the rest of his life), in 1967 he became the lead-guitarist with a mod-beat band called The Kinetic, which was based at the time in Paris, playing as a support act to Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Berry gigs in France.

[5][6] After The Kinetic had broken up, having returned to London from Paris, in April 1968 Weston joined the British blues heavy rock band Black Cat Bones, replacing Paul Kossoff as its lead-guitarist, and played with it until quitting the act at the end of the year.

[7] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weston worked as a session musician, performing and recording with a number of acts of the then in vogue British blues movement, including Graham Bond and Long John Baldry, and touring in continental Europe and America.

[9] In 1972, Weston was a resident in Ealing in West London, when he joined the British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac as its co-lead guitarist alongside Bob Welch, as a replacement for the recently dropped Danny Kirwan.

[10] During a tour of the United States in 1973 when the band were beginning to gel particularly well in its live performances,[12] it emerged that Weston had started a clandestine romantic relationship with Mick Fleetwood's wife, Jenny Boyd.

[citation needed] This led to a vacancy filled by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who brought to the band a more mainstream rock sound, which would in the late 1970s-1980s lead to its greater popularity and commercial success.

[10][20] In the 1990s, Weston retired from professional music for several years,[10] returning to it at the end of the decade with a self-produced album called There's a Heaven (1999), which was engineered at Studio 125 in Burgess Hill and released independently.

[23] In his last years, Weston was resident in North West London, occasionally playing in impromptu sessions at The Duke of Hamilton public house and gigging with a local band called Mad Dog Bites.