Who was the second guitarist in the early line-up of BBD that appeared on Whistle Test? He wore dark glasses ...

Ah! Okay, thank you very much.

Mick was a musician I'd met in the Wakefield Music Centre and who I employed only for the 'Modern Music' tour. He was never a member of the band, just a hired session musician. The 'Modern Music' album was a much more complicated beast to reproduce live due to the number of guitar overdubs on the recording. As I had to sing and play lead guitar at the same time on stage, this album required extra rhythm guitar parts to reproduce the album in a live situation, hence the need for a rhythm guitarist. By the way, this wasn't an early version of Be Bop Deluxe as Stephen Andrews stated in his initial post, but a much later version.

Thanks very much. Was he in Cockney Rebel?

That would be Mick Close Stephen.... he was brought in for the Modern music tour ..... although l don’t remember seeing him when Bill played at the Leeds grand during this tour .... but as is said often around here ...., it was along time ago 😳😂