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“Ozzy was used to Les Pauls from Zakk Wylde and Randy Rhoads. He kept asking me if I could play one”: Gus G on whirlwind days with Ozzy Osbourne, his rock-star Guitar World cover shoot, and his difficult choice of guitars

With new solo album Steel Burner out now, Gus G checks in to talk about his August 2010 GW cover shoot and all the madness surrounding it

Guitar World

"Ozzy signed the book plates months before the final show." Black Sabbath announce first ever official book, featuring rare photographs and memorabilia, plus in-depth interviews with all four original band members

The Masters of Reality - Why Black Sabbath Matter is now available to pre-order

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"What's Number One at the moment? I couldn't tell you. It's meaningless. All I care about is what Iron Maiden are doing next week." Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith look back on Iron Maiden's 50-year ride

As Iron Maiden's historic Eddfest show at Knebworth gets ever closer, the band look back over half a century of Monsters and Maiden

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“I couldn’t tell who it was. When he turned around, I went, ’Oh my God! That’s Jimmy Page!’” The words of encouragement a Led Zeppelin legend gave Gus G after he joined Ozzy Osbourne’s band

One minute you're getting your makeup on for a photo shoot with your new boss, the next your sitting down with Jimmy Page

Guitar World

"Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we'd write another it was like: 'Oh my god!'" The inside story of Master Of Puppets and the two-year whirlwind that took Metallica to the big time

From an El Cerrito garage to stadiums with Ozzy Osbourne – as told by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and more

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"You make one record, and now you have your own fried chicken restaurant and your own hovercraft company!" The Black Crowes reflect on success and longevity, and answer the question: Why do they still bother making albums?

After decades of feuding and fall-outs, The Black Crowes' Chris and Rich Robinson have found a groove of brotherly love and rock bravado

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"It's intense back there. Everybody is nervous. And everybody's really emotional because we know it's the last time." Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Back To The Beginning: The build-up, the show and the aftershow... and the loss of Ozzy Osbourne

When Halestorm's Lzzy Hale was asked to appear at Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show in Birmingham, ‘thrilled’ doesn’t even come close to how she felt

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Dave Mustaine shares his biggest regret after releasing Megadeth’s final album

Exclusive: Heavy metal frontman reflects on the band’s farewell while addressing his many health issues over the years, and the stories behind Megadeth’s last album

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"One bloke was on Antiques Roadshow saying he was our first drummer. Absolute rubbish!" Steve Harris sets the record straight about Christmas Day, Paul Di'Anno and Iron Maiden's early years

As Iron Maiden’s driving force, Steve Harris has steered the band from pub gigs and demos to the stadiums and multi-million-selling albums

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“The first thing I said to him was, ‘You bought Greeny.’ He goes, ‘Yeah, I’ve got it. You want to play it?’” Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith had a chance encounter with Kirk Hammett – and ended up babysitting his iconic Les Paul

The fabled Gibson has been making plenty of big-name players weak at the knees recently

Guitar World

"Call us tarts or a bunch of cheap Rolling Stones imitations – we're still together and we still love to rock": Wild and weird weekends with Aerosmith's Toxic Twins

Dinner with Jimmy Page, late-night chaos in hotel rooms and secret gigs: Crazed Aerosmith encounters across the decades

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"There was just Ozzy and me at my own private show in the middle of a desert": I took photos of Ozzy Osbourne for decades – these are some of my favourite memories

Ross Halfin, who photographed Ozzy Osbourne for nearly 50 years, reflects on his time spent with the late Prince Of Darkness

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"I cracked my skull and was in the hospital. And nobody called me": How America's most dysfunctional band grew to hate each other but learned to love again

Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer on the making of Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension!

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“I understand people who say: ‘There is no Queen without Freddie.’ Because that’s what we felt following his death”: The epic story behind Queen’s triumphant comeback with Adam Lambert

No one expected Queen to return in 2011 –not least Queen themselves

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"It's not until Ozzy's actually there, thanking fans and getting tearful, that it sinks in." Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning: our ultimate review of their triumphant final show

Our blow-by-blow review of the biggest heavy metal show ever as Black Sabbath triumphantly bow out

Guitar World

“Hearing the crowd sing the War Pigs solo gave me chills”: Back to the Beginning was Ozzy Osbourne’s night – but it was also a tribute to Tony Iommi’s singular impact on guitar music

Iommi’s world-altering riffs led to some of the all-star farewell show’s biggest singalongs – no wonder the supporting cast of guitar heroes had so much fun playing them

Guitar World

“I’ll list them on eBay or Reverb”: Kirk Hammett doesn’t want his guitars to go unplayed – so he’s been secretly selling them online

Bought a used guitar online? It might – just might – have belonged to the Metallica guitarist

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“If somebody offered me something I’d take it first and ask afterwards what it was. I’d swallow a pill and have to be carried back to my room”: The life and death of Jimmy Bain, the bassist who brought the rock’n’roll to Rainbow and Dio

They don’t make them like the late, great Jimmy Bain any more

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Digital Camera World

Taschen showcases the 75-year history of Atlantic Records with a stunning new book packed with the work of iconic photographers

Taschen's 75 Years of Atlantic Records might just be my photobook of the year so far!

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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett announces new book with help from Jason Momoa: “I hope all of you enjoy this journey as much as I did!”

The Collection: Kirk Hammett, announced in a video narrated by Aquaman star Jason Momoa, offers a look at the Metallica player’s famously massive guitar stash

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“The deepest-ever dive into the Metallica star’s eclectic guitar collection”: Kirk Hammett and Gibson Publishing team up for epic coffee-table book

Available in Standard, Deluxe and Custom Editions, this weighty 400-pager is essential for Metallica gear heads and tells the story behind Hammett's most-famous guitars

Guitar World

“If I’m really, really honest with myself, it’s probably my second-best-sounding guitar”: Greeny will always be Kirk Hammett’s pride and joy. But this uber-rare 1959 Gibson ES-335 is a close second – and it has a surprising history

What’s rarer than a Burst, rarer than a korina Flying V, and even rarer than a korina Explorer? A vintage guitar that Kirk Hammett believes is second only to Greeny when it comes to the best-sounding instruments in his arsenal…

Guitar World

“I remember thinking, ‘I’ll show them – they don’t realize they made a mistake.’ It’s not just the wins, it’s the determination you build from the losses”: Tommy Thayer’s junior high disappointment fired him up for success with Kiss

Kiss’ longest-serving Spaceman on sticking to the Les Paul when it wasn’t cool, the joy of discovering you’ve been playing something wrong for years, why he avoided ’80s-style playing, and what he’s doing next

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“After years of taking heroin, it becomes this black ooze that covers your heart and you can’t feel the music any more": How Stone Temple Pilots and Scott Weiland gave it one last chance with their self-titled sixth album

The story of Scott Weiland’s final Stone Temple Pilots album

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"We all went to visit him in hospital. And he was still wearing his cowboy hat": The crazed story of The Quireboys, the band who had it all then partied it all away

They've got a ballsy singer and catchy songs. Sharon Osbourne was their manager, Guns N' Roses were their mates. So why aren’t The Quireboys living in mansions?

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