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David Bowie’s guitarists on what it was like to play with the Thin White Duke: “I had just come from working with Frank Zappa for a year, and Frank was very directive. David was entirely the opposite”

10 years after Bowie's death, Adrian Belew, Peter Frampton, Carlos Alomar and other guitar-slinging comrades-in-arms recall high times alongside the master

Guitar World

Carlos Alomar’s hazy first encounter with Paul McCartney: “Paul turned his back to me to get something. What emerged was a perfectly rolled ganja joint”

The session veteran provided some finishing tracks on Press to Play after a rather indulgent first encounter bonding with the Beatle

Guitar World

‘I put a raging dent in Neil Young’s forehead!’ Tim Pope on his riotous videos for the Cure, Bowie, Queen, Soft Cell and more

He dressed Freddie Mercury as a prawn, got Paul Weller to wear lipstick, locked the Cure in a flooded wardrobe and created a 75ft penis for Hall & Oates. Pope looks back on is wild adventures with titans of music

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"They liked the Butthole Surfers, they liked Iggy Pop, they liked us… we were keeping good company." How Beavis and Butt-head's approval of Thunder Kiss '65 turned White Zombie into a million-selling band

"It was our most normal song. A song that a normal person might enjoy."

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Legendary Japanese photographer behind David Bowie's iconic "Heroes" cover honored with Lifetime Achievement Award – Sukita defined decades of music photography

Inspired by memories of his father taking photos on the front line during WWII, Masayoshi Sukita spent decades capturing music's most influential artists. Now he receives Abbey Road's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award

Digital Camera World

I tested Sony's new entry-level turntable and, though it sounds decent enough, you deserve so much more than a brand logo for this money

The Sony PS-LX3BT is a competent performer of an entry-level turntable, let down by a cheap chassis and high asking price

TechRadar

"We should have shown Sid dying in a pool of vomit." The story behind Sid & Nancy, the controversial punk rock biopic which annoyed almost everyone

How Gary Oldman, Courtney Love, Iggy Pop, and Guns N' Roses came together for a film about Sid Vicious that the Sex Pistols hated

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“Frank took an extended 10-minute solo. I walked off stage. David Bowie and Iggy Pop were standing there”: Adrian Belew on how he went from playing with Frank Zappa to joining David Bowie’s band

Belew would serve as Bowie’s lead guitarist between 1978 and 1979, before returning as his musical director in 1990

Guitar World

"Iggy was in a mental hospital when I first met him." In 1975, David Bowie introduced a 10-year-old Slash to Iggy Pop in a LA psych ward. He and Dennis Hopper later returned wearing space suits to share a bag of drugs with their friend

Iggy Pop's attempts to kick his drug addictions in the 1970s weren't always helped by his famous friends

Louder

"This sure ain't no summer of love, baby." The Stooges mark the post-Altamont death throes of the hippy zeitgeist on Fun House

The Stooges' second album Fun House is a beautiful seven-track study in the feral and unhinged

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"I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation

The story behind "the UK's alternative national anthem", inspired by heartbreak, David Bowie and Iggy Pop

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“Jaco made a great contribution, but what came after was all these idiots trying to sound like him. That's why bass players today are so lame”: Bill Laswell gives his unfiltered verdict on modern bassists

The visionary producer also had his say on Lemmy, Paul Simon, and his failed studio session with Jaco Pastorius

Guitar World

“I used it in the Damned, playing with Iggy… That guitar was part of me”: The Damned frontman Brian James’ ‘New Rose’ Gibson SG sells for over $95,000

The Gibson SG that put UK punk on the map smashed its pre-auction estimates – as did James’ hand-written lyrics

Guitar World

Ageism has no place at music festivals such as Coachella and Reading

Letters: Readers respond to an article suggesting Justin Trudeau was too old to attend Coachella

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“A unique symbol of punk’s emergence in the UK”: The Damned frontman Brian James’ iconic Gibson SG, the guitar that defined the sound of early UK punk, already set to exceed estimate at auction

The 1964 SG soundtracked the Damned’s first two records, and featured on the first punk single to ever be released in the UK

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How to watch the Coachella 2026 livestream: Iggy Pop, Wet Leg, Turnstile, David Byrne, Die Spitz, Interpol & Nine Inch Nails' set with Boys Noize just some of this weekend's highlights

The second Coachella event of 2026 will take place this weekend - here's how you can watch the action from the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, plus line-ups and stage times

Louder

"Pete Doherty said that I was a high-kicking acrobat crossed with Nico. I was very pleased with that." Approved by Blondie, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols, The Molotovs are a ferocious generational voice

After cutting their teeth in parks and at protests, scooter rallies and mod events, The Molotovs have now sold 10,000 tickets for their upcoming tour

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“While playing around on the guitar during the meeting, Paul happened upon a chord that even he didn’t recognise”: How an unfamiliar guitar chord proved to be the catalyst for Paul McCartney’s new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane

The first single, Days We Left Behind, includes a cryptic reference to John Lennon

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"We jokingly called the album Commercial Suicide while we were making it." Why one of the world's biggest rock bands had to go back to "ground zero" on their riskiest and darkest record

"Some reports said that it was a great record, but we should consider changing our name"

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"Bringing the bass and drums down so you can't hear them makes the lead guitar sound fantastic. Jack White made a career out of it." The story of the ferocious classic that was inspired by Vietnam and set a template for punk

The Stooges' Search And Destroy began with James Williamson "goofing around making machine-gun sounds" but countless others adopted its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar

Guitar World

“I feel like I’ve been molded for this gig. Trent has been an influence on me from the beginning”: How new Nine Inch Nails bassist Stu Brooks went from pop royalty to one of rock’s most sonically adventurous gigs

Brooks had previously collaborated with musical giants like Lady Gaga, 50 Cent, Danny Elfman and Iggy Pop

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Iggy Pop replaced by Britpop icon as he steps back from BBC radio show

Iggy Pop to step back from long-running BBC Radio 6 Music show after 12 years

Evening Standard

Iggy Pop replaced by Jarvis Cocker as he takes break from BBC Radio 6 Music

The 78-year-old musician is set to return to the radio station next year.

Louder

"I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation

The story behind "the UK's alternative national anthem", inspired by heartbreak, David Bowie and Iggy Pop

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"I preferred the Chili Peppers' cover to what Guns N' Roses did, but I was really happy about the royalty cheques": Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at the proto-punk ass-kicker David Bowie didn't understand

Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at this proto-punk ass kicker that opened many a show circa ’73

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