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“On a couple of gigs we had Eddie Van Halen playing with us. He said, ‘I can't play on that!’ I said, ‘Yes, you can!’” Albert Lee is the legendary British picker who found his home in country music – and made guitar heroes quake in their boots

The icon of rock and country guitar tells all: what it was like performing alongside Eric Clapton and George Harrison, how he inspired Jimmy Page and why he hates distortion

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Neighbor Battle Over Ornamental Squirrel Results In Loser Facing Huge Court Bill

“It was highly unreasonable for the defendants to remove the ornamental squirrel,” the presiding judge said.

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Huge court bill for neighbours who wrote YouTube songs in row over ornamental squirrel

The 14-year-battle in Essex is coming to a very expensive end

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“I didn’t want to go down the route of Fenders or Gibsons – I wanted something that sounds and looks different”: She’s Brian May and Johnny Marr’s new favorite guitarist, but The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts still has imposter syndrome

The Music Man-toting player on meeting St. Vincent and why we’re all just Frankensteining guitar solos

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‘You guys should be dead’: Frozen yogurt shop owners are getting death threats for paying tribute to Charlie Kirk

They have been labelled "sick" for how they chose to honor the controversial podcaster.

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'He Died A Martyr': Frozen Yogurt Shop Sparks Frenzy With Charlie Kirk Memorial Cups That Are 'Flying Off The Shelves'

Grooveberries Frozen Yogurt in Utah is selling Charlie Kirk memorial cups that have gone viral. The tribute has sparked a mix of support and backlash, with the owners vowing to continue honouring Kirk's legacy.

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“The guitar I play live is secretly a Squier. I replaced the neck plate – I was like, ‘I’m too big for this!’” How Frankensteined Fenders and vintage Gibsons supercharged the rise of Jack White-backed rockers Die Spitz

With a yin and yang guitar partnership, rarebreed pedals and a DIY attitude, the Texans’ blend of metal, punk and shoegaze is the latest addition to Third Man Records’ roster

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Camryn Manheim Joined Her First Show Since Law And Order's Off-Screen Exit, And I Can't Wait To Watch

Welcome Camryn Manheim back to primetime!

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“8am one morning there was a knock at the door. It was a cop and he said: ‘Do you have a red Gibson guitar SG model?’ I just handed it to him”: Pat Travers owned three Gibsons by the age of 16 – his luck would not last

The Canadian rocker explains how he went through three Gibson builds in two short years

Guitar World

“He went to Guitar Center and did the most humble thing. He bought a $200 Yamaha acoustic. He didn’t show up with a $2,000 guitar and he could have”: Bob Dylan may have played Gibson, but Timothée Chalamet started his transformation with a budget acoustic

The actor was fully equipped with high-end Gibsons for A Complete Unknown – but picked out a budget-friendly Yamaha when he first started taking guitar lessons

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“Top money buys forensically aged details and incredible craft, but you won’t necessarily hear £5k’s worth of difference in the sonic performance”: How close are Gibson's ’59 Burst replicas and their boutique rivals?

We put a Gibson Custom Shop Collector’s Edition ’59 Les Paul up against a Nik Huber Orca ’59 for the ultimate single-cut shootout

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“I must admit, it looked and sounded phenomenal, but the poor girl was crushed to smithereens… I was totally heartbroken”: How Ted Nugent accidentally destroyed his first Gibson Byrdland

An archtop jazz box was a strange choice for a young rocker like Nugent, but as he explains here, it was the making of him, and it was all about the tone

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“I never thought that my signature would be on anything – never mind Fenders, Gibsons, and Martins, they're the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost of guitars”: Mark Knopfler is selling off 120 guitars, including his Money For Nothing Les Paul

See the Scottish guitar great talk through highlights of his immense collection of signature models, custom builds and guitars used on Dire Straits’ most iconic tracks

Guitar World

“In my mind, we could be like the Yardbirds in those rare times when you had Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck together. That’s what we wanted Aerosmith to be”: Joe Perry reflects on 50 years of America’s greatest rock band

In this exclusive interview, Perry looks back at every era of the rock institution: how their rapid rise ultimately took its toll, why Van Halen caused him to quit in the ’80s, how he and Steven Tyler reconciled their differences, and why he finds himself playing Strats more than Gibsons

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Oberlin College finishes paying $25M judgement in libel suit

Oberlin College has finished paying out a $25 million judgment to an Ohio bakery that won a libel lawsuit against the school after a shoplifting incident involving three Black students

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Chance encounter leads Berry couple to help organise inauguration for ancient Buchanan clan in Scotland

A couple from Berry on the NSW South Coast have ended up at the centre of an extravagant inauguration for the chief of one of Scotland's oldest clans, the first in more than three centuries.

Boston Herald

Movie review: Problematic ‘Gigi & Nate’ aims for the heartstrings, misses

In “Gigi & Nate,” a film directed by BAFTA Award-winning Irishman Nick Hamm of the far superior 2016 drama “The Journey,” London-born Charlie Rowe (“Rocketman”) plays Nate Gibson of Nashville, Tennessee, a young man left quadriplegic by a life-threatening bacterial infection. After attempting suicide, Nate gets a service animal, a…

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In warmhearted ‘Gigi & Nate,’ a monkey helps a paralyzed man — and concerns others

The seemingly tame drama suddenly takes on extra weight as a statement about animal rights.

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Appeals court upholds $25M judgment against Oberlin College

An Ohio appeals court has upheld a $25 million judgment against Oberlin College awarded to a local business that successfully claimed it was libeled by the school in the aftermath of a shoplifting incident

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