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EXPLAINED: Santana org - The Real Truth

Clive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no one else

The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry forever

The Guardian - US

Former Santana singer dies two weeks after his last concert

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The Independent UK

“I really wanted to help. But if I’m honest I was just crap. I couldn’t pull it off”: It Bites ex Francis Dunnery abandoned Asia after one show. He’s stopped trying to please everybody

Robert Plant and Santana collaborator reveals complaints about his recent DVDs, the possibility of revisiting his 80s heyday, and why it was time to explore his difficult childhood on new album England’s Tales Of The Council House Kid

Louder

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“His dad got him a guitar. The next day he came back playing Black Magic Woman by Santana. He was obsessed with being great at guitar”: Prince was destined to become a guitar legend as soon as he started playing

Prince’s cousin and former bandmate has recalled the day the Purple One became a guitarist – and seemingly skipped the beginner phase

Guitar World

“Journey wanted to make a musical change. Next thing I know I’m in Denver, Colorado with Neal Schon and we wrote our first song together that night”: How Steve Perry became the voice of Journey and took the band to its peak – before he had to bow out

At the moment Perry joined, the band was in danger of being dropped by Columbia Records

MusicRadar

"It feels like Black Sabbath decided to couple with Santana. Then raise their child as a rock musical": Lucifer's Friend mix it up on fourth album Banquet

In which four Germans and a Brit hook up and invent prog-jazz-rock showtunes

Louder

“I got a call – ‘I’m putting a super band together, and I want you to be one of the guitar players.’ The other guitarist was Neal Schon from Santana”: How Les Dudek joined Journey “for two hours”

Recruited due to his stellar resume – which included studio work with the Allman Brothers Band and Steve Miller – Dudek turned down the gig to pursue a solo career

Guitar World

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“It reminds me of a saturated Clapton mid-boost or tubular Santana tone. It’s a very handy thickener for single coils”: Black Ice Boost review

A passive boost you can retrofit to your guitar to thicken up single coils – no battery required

Guitar World

“We kept binning stuff that sounded too much like us… 10 albums in, it’s got to feel different”: Prog was always in Elbow’s music, but it’s upfront on Audio Vertigo

Singer Guy Garvey and keyboardist Craig Potter chart their history from second-hand record collectors to art rock giants with big-name fans

Louder

"Led Zeppelin played to a crowd of 150,000, but no-one on the bill was looking for a big break or even a record deal": How 60s' music festivals turned a generation of blues aficionados into the first rock stars

Some of the events still exist today, but back in the 60s they played hosts to bands for whom future possibilities were entirely unknown

Louder

George Tickner, Journey’s original rhythm guitarist, dies at 76

The former Journey and Frumious Bandersnatch man contributed to the former group’s first three albums

Guitar World

Lizzo, Ed Sheeran among hundreds of acts to play Jazz Fest

Lizzo and Ed Sheeran are among the headliners who will play this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which takes place over two weekends beginning April 28

The Independent UK

Tower of Power set to become first funk/soul band to play with San Diego Symphony: 'We're really excited!'

SAN DIEGO — Tower of Power hasn't done absolutely everything a band can do in 53 years, but it's come close.

Tribune News Service

The Glasgow bootmaker who ordered Freddie Mercury to fit David Bowie with a pair of platforms

It sounds like the kind of thing your mate would claim occurred in a dream, but Alan Mair really did once order Freddie Mercury to fit David Bowie with a pair of boots.

Glasgow Live

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