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Looks like a great place to spend a few hours. I have loved WWII aircraft for as long as I can remember and it is always good to see them up close. I took my dad to the RAF museum at Hendon in London last July for his birthday and for us old warplane nuts it's just heaven!!
They have at least one example of almost every airframe used by the RAF since it's inception including the RFC days when it was still officially a branch of the army. They also have a large selection of the German WWII aircraft including a Stuka and the early jets. The place is huge and is probably the only place where you can walk around a B17 and a Lancaster parked side by side with a Vulcan jet bomber just behind. An awesome sight. If you are ever in the UK it's well worth a visit but you need a whole day or you won't get around it all.

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/

Gotta say I'm with Astronomikal on this one, it does sound a lot like wonderwall. There are also quite a few guitar tracks going on too which muddy the waters a bit when you try to work it out. Similar to Z I hear two down strokes to start then alternate up and down after that but I've tried it a few ways and I dont think it sounds too different wheather you go down or up in any paticular section as long as the rhythm is right. It's quite fast so it's not so important I don't think.

I've never really bothered with scales on the guitar. I used to play bass in a band so I know some from that but I only play chords on a guitar so is it worth learning them? Almost every guitar tutorial has scales right at the start but I've always assumed that they are teaching them for soloing pruposes only. Am I right?

I'm sure there are better people than me at figuring out chords but it sounds like he's riffing around G and Cadd9 for the first verse using what I call a full G where the thin E and B strings are both fretted at 3 and then the Cadd9 is just a case of moving your index and middle fngers up one string. i.e. from 2 & 3 on the E and A strings respectively to 2 & 3 on the A and D strings. If you look at the chord charts you will see what I mean. After the frst verse the chorus(?) goes Am, C, G. The C in the middle there is a normal C not the add9 version. The next part starts off on a C before dropping into Em and then Am. This repeats up to the mouth organ solo. The whole thing then repeats.
Without being able to write down what they're singing it's very difficult to format this any better but I've played along with it using the above and it sounds right to me. Good enough to get away with if you are singing anyway.
Hope that makes sense and helps you out a bit.

I find I have to be able to forget either one or the other to be able to do both at the same time. If the words are very familiar you will probably find yourself going through the words in your head when you are playing anyway. Similarly, if you have practiced enough that the playing is automatic you can then concentrate on the words, even if you have to read them at first.
I find that any song I am trying to learn I tend to sing all day! This is really usefull because the melody of the lyric is then in my head and helps me remember the structure of the song. Certain words and phrases give my hands a clue as to what they should be doing if you like. But if you are anything like me, there will always be songs that you just can't do for whatever reason. Louis Louis has always been my Nemesis because the words are not on the beat of the music. I find it like trying to rub your belly and pat your head at the same time. Been trying for thirty years now and never done it. I can play and sing about fifty other songs mind. Sometimes you just have to move on. Best of luck.

I find nothing gives me a boost like a new guitar. Doesn't have to be an expensive one, just different. I bought one at the end of last year and haven't been able to leave it alone since. I found that I can do things on it that I hadn't been able to do on the old one and the boost to self confidence is amazing. Really feel like I'm making progress now. It's well worth putting in silly bids on e-bay when there is no reserve. I picked up a Rickenbacker for well under half what it's worth when the auction ended at 7:00am on a bank holiday Monday. You never know!!

D'Addario EXP coated for me. Sound nice and mellow and they last for ever.

The weather is mad all over at the minute. Here in the UK it is only 60 degrees which is way under what it should be for July. Last week we had hail the size of golf balls! On one estate in Leicester, in the midlands, every car that was outside was written off. They tell me it's something to do with the jet stream not being in it's usual position. Does that kind of heat affect the guitars much?
Best of luck to anyone who is suffering.

I wish I could have learned at that age, maybe it wouldn't be so difficult now. Mind you, alhtough I am an official mutant and would normally barre a B chord, I think the open chord sounds better on some songs, especially on an acoustic. I find the same thing with F too. I wouldn't dream of using a barred F in The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve, it just doesn't sound right to me. Also, as you are only playing the strings you are fingering, you can slide these chords up the neck too just like a barre. Makes F to G really easy.