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"Black Night? It was done in two hours of drunkenness!": Deep Purple's best songs, in their own words - Only in the revealing new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Scorpions, Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr., The Waterboys, Kris Barras, Big Big Train, Gun, Peter Green, Wolfgang Van Halen and much more

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“I’d never attempted to write a whole record on my own. I wasn’t feeling confident. I was concerned I might end up with a load of outtakes and waste the money”: How Steve Hackett made Voyage Of The Acolyte

Missing his pal Peter Gabriel and sensing more change in the air with Genesis, the guitarist overcame his confidence issues to become the first member to release a solo album

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Slash interview: Growing up with the blues, assembling Orgy Of The Damned, meeting Peter Green, and the crazy journey behind that Oscars thing with Ryan Gosling

Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators start their European tour next week

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"I think everyone has some sort of death wish... but I don't want to die": The spectacular rise and tragic fall of Paul Kossoff

Paul Kossoff should have been one of rock and blues' great guitar heroes. Instead, the light of the Free and Back Street Crawler guitarist shone briefly – and burned out quickly

Louder

“Noel spat on his T-shirt, rubbed off the signature and said, ‘I’ll take it anyway!’”: Noel Gallagher once bought one of Peter Green’s Les Pauls – but erased Green’s signature to get back at the store owner who sold it to him

Bill Ryder-Jones, the guitar's current custodian, revealed how the Oasis man came into possession of the storied Les Paul, and stripped it of its notable scrawl

Guitar World

"With effortless playability and the credentials to absolutely nail those iconic Peter Green, Gary Moore and Kirk Hammett tones": Epiphone Kirk Hammett "Greeny" 1959 Les Paul Standard review

The world's most famous Les Paul finally gets the Epiphone treatment – but is it worth it?

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The guitar magic of Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Danny Kirwan: 5 underrated songs you need to hear by early Fleetwood Mac

Three very different players and an incredible legacy of music

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"Who knows where we would have gone had we not had that monster hit? It was the beginning of the end for us": The real story of Free, told by those who were there

Free burnt brightly and all too briefly: The story of Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser and Simon Kirke

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Slash announces blues album featuring Billy Gibbons, Paul Rodgers, Iggy Pop and more, launches video for cover of Killing Floor with Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler

Slash's all-star blues album Orgy Of The Damned will contain songs by Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Steppenwolf, Albert King, Peter Green, The Temptations and more

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"Leslie said to the audience 'There’s a technical hitch,' and he touched the microphone and the guitar. And that was it": The tragic story of Stone The Crows, Scotland's great lost band

With musical talent to spare and Led Zeppelin’s manager behind them, Stone The Crows should have been a success story. Instead it’s one of tragic death and unfulfilled potential

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“Rest in peace, Bobby”: Veteran vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench – who worked with the likes of Jeff Beck, Peter Green, Humble Pie, Ginger Baker, Van Morrison and many more – dies, aged 79

The British musician played with everyone from Peter Green to Freddie King and Ginger Baker yet never got the limelight he deserved

Guitar World

"I came home from school and learned all the sounds, and learned all the songs note for note. I could just relate to it somehow": How the blues galvanised Gary Moore

Heavily influenced by the 60s boom, Thin Lizzy’s perennially under-rated guitarist Gary Moore would take blues rock to the next level and beyond

Louder

“When Keith and I are together, we talk through our guitars. We never say, ‘You do this and I’ll do that.’ We weave”: How Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood made the Rolling Stones what they are today

The story of three different eras and three different players, all bound by the ability to bob and weave through Keith Richards' unforgettable riffs and drive the Stones ever-forward

Guitar World

"I'm sure I was appreciated, but it wasn’t hero worship or anything like that": Christine McVie, the calm eye of the Fleetwood Mac storm

Christine McVie brought elegance and soul to Fleetwood Mac through her voice, keyboard playing and some of rock’s most enduring hits

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Epiphone Greeny Les Paul breaks cover early: Kirk Hammett and Gibson CEO have been filmed playing it

Hammett used in onstage with Metallica in Detroit while Cesar Gueikian jams Metallica riffs on the soon-to-be-announced model in his office

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‘Ultimate archive’ of Fleetwood Mac from former band manager set for auction

Memorabilia includes tour and TV contracts, gold and platinum discs and a personal letter from band founder Peter Green.

Zenger

Fleetwood Mac Memorabilia Collection Heads To Auction

Former manager's unique archive offers unprecedented insight into the legendary band's rise to fame

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“My mum said, ‘What about the drink and drugs and wild women?’ I said, ‘That‘s what I want to do this for!’”: the life and times of Bernie Marsden, British blues-rock‘s secret weapon

In 2020, Classic Rock sat down with late ex-Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden to talk fistfights with UFO, patching things up with David Coverdale and meeting James Bond

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Former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden has died, aged 72

Marsden was a giant of blues and rock guitar, with a formidable guitar collection and an even more formidable style

Guitar World

Bernie Marsden, former Whitesnake guitarist and giant of blues-rock guitar, has died

Co-writer of Here I Go Again, Marsden leaves behind a profound legacy following a lauded career, and was “writing and recording new songs until the end”

Guitar World

Holy grail Greeny tone from any Les Paul? Gibson just made its Greenybucker pickups available as a standalone set for the first time

Previously available only in Kirk Hammett's USA Greeny signature model, these $299 humbuckers were made in collaboration with the Metallica man, and in consultation with actual PAF specs

Guitar World

“I hate admitting this but I started bawling like a baby”: Kirk Hammett says his iconic ‘Greeny’ Les Paul recently had another gut-wrenching injury

Another footnote has just been added to the iconic Les Paul's long medical history – but, as the Metallica maestro explains to Rick Beato, it could have been a whole lot worse

Guitar World

“An incredible piece of history”: Peter Green’s 1962 Silvertone Speed Demon has just been listed on Reverb

The semi-hollow single-cut was first snapped up by Chris Tapp of The Cold Stares – whose impressive Peter Green guitar haul also included a very notable National resonator

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Gary Moore classic interview: "Obviously I don’t play the same way, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave me a guitar I could sit here and probably get closer than anybody else"

In 1995 Guitarist magazine met Moore as he prepared to release his album of Peter Green songs

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Peter Green classic interview: "I'm only Eric Clapton's replacement, I'm not Eric Clapton"

Three years on from his passing, we remember the self-effacing Fleetwood Mac and Bluesbreakers guitar legend with this 1998 interview

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