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Abbey Road engineer Ken Scott on recording The Beatles: “I was there when Eric Clapton played the solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, but it was just another day at the office so it didn't mean anything at the time”

On working with Lennon and McCartney: “Paul was exceedingly patient, and would keep on going until it was the way he wanted it, whereas John would prefer to get it over with as quickly as possible”

MusicRadar

John Lee Hooker: The Best Of Friends - Album Of The Week Club review

More than a dozen of John Lee Hooker's superstar duets, gathered together in a collaborative showcase

Louder

Joe Bonamassa names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

The king of modern-day blues-rock on "the greatest rock guitar player that ever was", who he considers "the Frank Sinatra of the blues" and "Immaculate Conception as a guitar player" – and why he regularly apologizes to Eric Johnson

Guitar World

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Watch Marcus King play a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom once owned by Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton

King was on tour in France when super-collector Matthieu Lucas of Matt’s Guitar Shop dropped by with a very special single-cut in tow

Guitar World

Ed Sheeran's final album will be "perfect" and released "after I die"

Star reveals he wants to build the posthumous album "for the rest of my life"

MusicRadar

Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Nick Mason and more join list of artists calling for Roger Waters' concert ban to be reversed

Frankfurt's city council forced the cancellation of a scheduled performance by Roger Waters - and now a list of notable names have lined up to support the former Pink Floyd man

Louder

Jim Gordon obituary

Accomplished rock drummer of the 1960s and 70s who played with George Harrison and Eric Clapton

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Bruce Kulick names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

The hard-rock guitar slinger names the unlikely influences behind a number of his best-known Kiss riffs, and the player he likens to "a race car champion with the soul of a great blues musician"

Guitar World

Jim Gordon, drummer with the Beach Boys and Eric Clapton who killed his own mother, dies aged 77

Jim Gordon featured with a host of well-known acts

Wales Online

Jim Gordon, a famed session drummer who was convicted of killing his mother, dies

Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died. He was 77.

WEKU

Jim Gordon, session drummer on dozens of hits such as Layla, dies aged 77

After playing with the Beach Boys, George Harrison and other mid-century stars, Gordon was convicted of killing his mother during a psychotic episode in 1983

The Guardian - UK

Jim Gordon death: Drummer for Eric Clapton and Beach Boys dies in prison aged 77

The session drummer was convicted of killing his mother in 1983 and was serving time in prison when he died

The Independent UK

Jim Gordon dies: Drummer for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, jailed for murder dies at 77

Jim Gordon, drummer for Eric Clapton and George Harrison, has passed away from natural causes aged 77

Daily Mirror

Jim Gordon, famed session drummer convicted of murdering his mother, dies at 77

LOS ANGELES — Jim Gordon, the prolific session drummer who played with some of rock’s biggest stars — including the Beach Boys, several Beatles and Eric Clapton, whose classic “Layla” he’s credited with co-writing — before he was sentenced to prison for killing his mother, died Monday at the state-run…

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How Tedeschi Trucks Band dug into 'Layla' source material for 4-part album

Under normal circumstances, one of your backup singers suggesting that the band read a 4,600-stanza Persian poem from the 12th century would seem preposterous.

The Guardian - US

‘He was central to music history’: the forgotten legacy of Leon Russell

In an illuminating new book, the incredible highs and devastating lows of the influential musician are remembered

The Guardian - UK

Andy Fairweather Low: ‘Jimi Hendrix sidled over and politely told me: you’re in the wrong key’

Kate Bush loved his voice, Clapton hired him and Paul Weller mocked his hair. Having gone from top of the charts to living with his mum, one of rock’s nice guys is back with a new album at 74

Daily Mirror

Anthony 'Top' Topham dead: Original Yardbirds guitarist dies aged 76

Anthony ‘Top’ Topham, the first guitarist for The Yardbirds, has died just two weeks after his successor Jeff Beck, it's been announced this evening - with his family sharing the musician had been 'fighting dementia' in his final years

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The Independent UK

Jeff Beck: Virtuoso guitarist and one of rock’s all-time greats

The musician’s time in The Yardbirds and subsequent music career helped define a genre

The Conversation

Jeff Beck: the unorthodox techniques that made him such a unique guitarist

The praise Jeff Beck, who has died aged 78, received from indebted musicians during his lifetime already read like unbridled eulogies. Eric Clapton had called him “the most unique guitarist”, Steve Lukather (Toto) “God’s guitarist”, and Joe Satriani “just a genius”.

Louder

"He was selling guitars to raise ready cash to buy dope": The real story of the show that brought Eric Clapton back from the brink

By mid-1971 Eric Clapton was a recluse with a heroin habit, until friends including Pete Townshend and George Harrison intervened to save his life

Daily Mirror

Luxury hotel once a hit with David Bowie and Boy George is now on worst-rated lists

Wham!, Duran Duran, Hot Chocolate, Kiss, Cliff Richard, Eric Clapton and Elizabeth Taylor all stayed at the Dragonara Hotel which opened in the early eighties in Edinburgh

The Independent UK

Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant pays tribute to Jeff Beck’s ‘enormous’ musical gift

Titans within the world of rock music have paid tribute to the guitarist following the news of his death aged 78.

Evening Standard

Who is Jeff Beck? Yardbirds guitarist dies aged 78

In 2022, Beck made headlines when he announced a collaborative album with Johnny Depp shortly after the Hollywood actor’s defamation battle with ex-wife Amber Heard drew to a close.

The Independent UK

Kiss’s Gene Simmons: You can’t leave this planet without experiencing Jeff Beck

Simmons is among the rock greats to remember Beck after the guitarist’s death aged 78.

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