Even Though He Won't Admit It, This 1996 John Travolta Movie Made My Dad Cry, And It's Still Great Could you change the world? Cinemablend · Jan 5
Michael Schumacher, acclaimed author of biographies of Coppola and Clapton, dies at 75 His daughter confirmed that her father passed away on December 29 The Independent UK · Jan 5
“I was very aggressive. I’d survived this terrible pop thing, so I became mega-paranoid. Hard to work for? Very”: The trials and triumphs of Chris Rea, rock’s most misunderstood star Think the late Chris Rea was just the guy who wrote Driving Home For Christmas? Think again Louder · Dec 31, 2025
Men Share 46 Things They Learned About Women From Serious Relationships Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. And apparently, on Venus, there's a lot of hair... everywhere. There can never be enough toilet rolls. Cars are filled with car wrappers from 2015. And furniture is constantly being rearranged. These are just some of the things men revealed when asked,… Bored Panda · Dec 31, 2025
“At the Mark Knopfler sale, I remember seeing people in tears”: A-list guitar auctions are now a firm fixture, and the sums involved are eye-watering. But who is driving the boom – and is it sustainable? The amount of money changing hands for artist-owned guitars at auction is eye-watering. Amelia Walker of Christie's London explains what sells and who's buying – and whether it will last Guitar World · Dec 26, 2025
“I guess like John Lennon and Brian Jones, we’re not up front, but we keep it all sticking together”: Chris Dreja turned down Led Zeppelin, but he will be remembered as the Yardbirds’ unsung bass hero in a band of guitar superstars Co-founder of the Yardbirds, Chris Dreja – who supported Clapton, Beck and Page on rhythm or bass guitar, then went on to become a photographer – has died, aged 79 Guitar World · Dec 24, 2025
London's juiciest celebrity home moves and planning feuds of 2025 The stars’ year in property — from Liam Gallagher’s shiny new pad to Eric Clapton’s swimming pool woes Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2025
“Bob Dylan had me, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Ronnie Wood, Levon Helm and Paul Butterfield. It wasn’t the greatest music I ever played”: Bob Margolin on The Last Waltz, the jam party afterwards and his years with Muddy Waters Blues veteran recalls the “reefer” moment that landed him a job with his hero, the Gibson archtop that’s seen in the movie, and how he stayed friends with Waters despite business matters Guitar World · Dec 17, 2025
“We were asked to do Glastonbury. I had no intention, but I was outvoted… If I’d been told first instead of the band, I might ‘not have remembered’ to say!”: John Lees’ on playing live again and the new Barclay James Harvest album, Relativity... New album Relativity gave him flashbacks to the 70s – and though the factors that led to his split with Les Holroyd are all in the past, he can’t see how a reunion might happen Louder · Dec 16, 2025
"I had abreakdown. But what we get with this album is a breakthrough": Heartbroken and stricken with cancer, Stephen Dale Petit built his masterpiece, Be The Love Stephen Dale Petit's Be The Love is an album that burns with the urgency and creativity of a man on borrowed time Louder · Dec 16, 2025
“We were told they’d all gone down. You’ll never see a house full of people get so quiet, it was pin-drop silence – eventually we found out Buddy and Eric were okay”: Veteran bluesman Larry McCray recalls the night Stevie Ray Vaughan died The famed Strat wielder passed away at the age of 35 in a helicopter crash outside East Troy, Wisconsin Guitar World · Dec 12, 2025
How a song rejected three times by The Beatles became the emotional and musical centrepiece of George Harrison’s classic solo album All Things Must Pass At one point Harrison considered offering the song to Frank Sinatra MusicRadar · Dec 12, 2025
Inside Davina McCall’s storied love life — from a rockstar romance to her third marriage The TV presenter quietly wed her long-term partner Michael Douglas in an intimate ceremony last week. Here, we track the great loves of her life Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2025
"His performance was so far out of time, out of tune": The shambolic story of The Rolling Stones' star-studded Rock And Roll Circus With Brian Jones falling apart on set, the Rock And Roll Circus went so badly that the planned film wasn’t released until 28 years later Louder · Dec 10, 2025
MusicRadar · Dec 10, 2025 “If you really like something, you should take the first lines and make up another song from them. So that’s what I did with Black Magic Woman”: The legendary song that passed from Peter Green to Carlos Santana "The original Fleetwood Mac used to knock me out,” Santana said
Louder · Dec 10, 2025 "These guys are simply timeless": Triumph's Rik Emmett picks five essential guitar albums Canadian guitar legend and founding member of Triumph Rik Emmett picks five guitar classics that inspired his own path
MusicRadar · Dec 9, 2025 “There was a guy checking out people who were coming in, and he’d go over the microphone, ‘Now here’s Elton John and his band!’”: Davey Johnstone on guitar shopping with Elton John – and how he ended up with his iconic Les Paul Custom Johnstone says some of his best guitars came via the kindness of Elton John as he recalls one surreal day in the legendary NYC gear institution Manny's and the unexpected gift of a Clapton Strat
Guitar World · Dec 8, 2025 “There is no greater story of triumph than that of B.B. King. I’m humbled to help bring it to life”: A B.B. King biopic is on the way – and it will chronicle the blues legend’s life, legacy and Lucille The film will chart B.B. King’s rise from extreme poverty to global stardom – and his life-long partnership with his iconic ES-355 will be at the heart of it all
Guitar World · Dec 5, 2025 “He was going to record it, so they put it on hold so nobody else could. But he didn’t actually record it”: Sheryl Crow says Don Henley told her to stop giving her songs away after she wrote a song for Eric Clapton that never got released Will Slowhand ever release this song? It has been sitting "on hold" for him since the ’90s
MusicRadar · Dec 4, 2025 "They put it on hold so nobody else can record it. But he didn’t actually record it. That was when Don Henley said, ‘You need to quit giving your songs away’”: Sheryl Crow says that she once wrote a song for Eric Clapton that never saw the light of day She still isn't telling who My Favorite Mistake was written about, though...
Guitar World · Nov 26, 2025 “An icon of late 1960s rock history”: George Harrison and Eric Clapton both married the same woman. Now the historic 1913 Gibson acoustic named after Pattie Boyd is headed to auction – months after it was listed on Reverb for almost $1,000,000 The pair reportedly wrote some of their most iconic songs on the instrument
Guitar World · Nov 25, 2025 “Eric said that the only way he’d play on it is if he sounded like the Beatles”: Legendary Abbey Road record producer, Ken Scott, explains how Eric Clapton ended up playing an uncredited solo on a Beatles classic Scott also reveals the recording technique the team used to make sure Clapton's solo sounded Beatles-esque
Guitar World · Nov 20, 2025 “Iasked Eric, ‘Can I play them?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, ofcourse.’ So he went home and I had full licence to play his guitars”: Stephen Dale Petit on break-ups, cancer, Eric Clapton and why the original “blues hooligan” is no gun-for-hire Grave illness and a broken heart have tested Stephen Dale Petit – but the bluesman tells us that completing his Clapton-bolstered masterpiece, Be The Love, is all that matters
Guitar World · Nov 19, 2025 “You only get one shot to do this correctly. And I think we nailed it”: Joe Bonamassa once called Eric Clapton his favorite guitar player of all time. Now, the two blues greats are set to collaborate on a B.B. King classic Bonamassa's star-studded tribute project to B.B. King – B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 – is set to be released in February, with collaborators including Buddy Guy, Eric Gales, Larkin Poe and Jimmie Vaughan
Guitar World · Nov 19, 2025 “I’d heard about these fellows in England. There was quite a mystique...” John Fogerty walks Stephen Colbert through his iconic Acme Rickenbacker mods – which took inspiration from three British guitar greats The Creedence Clearwater Revival legend was reunited with his Acme decades after he gave it away to a 12-year-old fan