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“Gibson said, ‘We really can’t reproduce that wah effect,’ so they went to Chandler and bought all of the ones they had in stock”: Joe Perry on how Jimmy Page inspired his custom ‘90s Black Burst Les Paul Standard

A doozy from the Gibson Custom Shop that inspired the Aerosmith man's signature model, this single-cut is hot-wired for a tone that sets it apart from garden variety Les Pauls

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“I read the other day that I hated him. I can’t believe they said that”: Ritchie Blackmore sets the record straight about his relationship with Jimmy Page

Blackmore says he has nothing but respect for the Led Zep guitarist

Guitar World

“When I started this business, I had two kinds of people: those who believed in it and those laughing at me”: Who is buying $15 million guitars? One of the world’s leading dealers lifts the veil on the collectible guitar market

At 32, Matthieu Lucas hosts guitars wielded by the likes of Slash, Eric Clapton and AC/DC at Parisian guitar emporium Matt’s Guitar Shop. He is driven by his core belief that vintage guitars, once owned by legendary musicians, are meant to be played on stage again

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“There were two camps. I came out of the Yardbirds camp – the Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck kind of things”: Why Todd Rundgren chose to play Gibsons over Fenders

Rundgren initially aligned himself with the Yardbirds guitar heroes, though would branch out in later years

Guitar World

Led Zeppelin Quiz: The beginnings of the legend

How much do you really know about Led Zeppelin’s beginnings? Test yourself now!

Louder

“There was a back door to the studio that led out to the street. I went out and I'm not kidding you, but this guy pops out of a trash can – it was Ginger Baker!”: Jimmy Douglass on his early days working for Atlantic Records

Having shaped rock, R&B and hip-hop across five decades, Grammy-winning engineer and producer Jimmy "The Senator" Douglass reflects on his extraordinary career

MusicRadar

“Look at AC/DC. Whatever was popular, it didn’t matter. It’s like McDonald’s. ‘We make the Big Mac and we make fries and we don’t care about doing sushi’”: Zakk Wylde on musical identity, jailhouse rocking with Ozzy and the return of Black Label Society

The maestro of the pinched harmonic and pentatonic blitzkrieg sits in to talk Engines Of Demolition, Randy Rhoads' greatness, and the origin of his style

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"Bonzo picked George Harrison up and launched him into the swimming pool. He said it was the greatest night of his life!" How Led Zeppelin seized control of the industry and became the biggest rock band on the planet

Magic hexes, hotel robberies and cut-throat deals: Led Zeppelin band members and associates chronicle the heady days of 1972/73

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Paul Gilbert: What I learned and taught at GIT

Paul was a student and a tutor at LA's G.I.T. (Guitar Institute of Technology). Here are the shred secrets he learned there – and taught

Guitar World

“It sounds like nature coming through the speakers”: Jimmy Page shares rare home recorded demo of Led Zeppelin’s Ten Years Gone

The song, from Physical Graffiti, was demoed by Page before he linked up with the band at Headley Grange in the 1970s

Guitar World

Fretting over a safe spot for your cash? Look to the unlikely world of rock ’n’ roll

As a guitar owned by David Gilmour sells for $14.5m, tripling its value in seven years, Chris Blackhurst looks at other memorabilia that could make your investment portfolio comfortably numb

Evening Standard

"Robert Plant came up with some lyrics for my music that were extraordinary." Jimmy Page releases previously unheard home demo version of Led Zeppelin's Ten Years Gone

More light has been shed on the origins of Led Zeppelin's most melancholy song

Louder

They were bottled off stage by Alice Cooper's audience, derailed by a death in The Pretenders and made U2's producer cry: How Big Country made one of the biggest albums of the 80s

In an exclusive extract from a new book about the life of Stuart Adamson, we look at the hidden story behind The Crossing

Louder

“Those Fender Jazz basses sounded fantastic, but they scared the hell out of me”: Why bassist Paul Samwell-Smith chose a short-scale Epiphone for his “rave-ups” with the Yardbirds

The blues-rock opener from the band’s 1966 debut album showcases a standout example of Samwell-Smith’s fluid, freewheeling bass work

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“If it was in that room that day, that would be between 20 and 30 million dollars easy for sure”: Guitar expert reveals the guitars that could surpass the new auction record held by David Gilmour’s Black Strat

Matthieu Lucas from Matt’s Guitar Shop in Paris gives Guitar World the lowdown on which guitars could likely break the Gilmour record one day

Guitar World

“Legend has it that, while recording, Clarence said, ‘Hey, I need another finger to play this chord!’” Charlie Starr on the origins of the B-Bender – and how you can play those licks without one

No B-Bender, no problem, as the Blackberry Smoke frontman shows us 9 licks for that faux pedal-steel sound

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"Are you a guitarist too?" The day that rock legends Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Brian May and Jeff Beck met the Queen of England

"It doesn’t matter at all that she did not know who we are"

Digital Camera World

Scarlet Page exposes rock legends Placebo – with Leica and Nikon facing off in the process

Never-before-seen shots of the iconic 90s band reveal insights into photography in the age of sex, drugs, and film

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“Those old players had nothing to hide behind. Just their hands, their feel and the truth coming through the speakers”: 5 modern blues guitar heroes on the impossible task of imitating the blues greats

Blues and rock is still being shaped by the British blues boom of the ’60s – and the O.G. bluesmen who influenced them. But how can today’s players nail their tone and sound? Marcus King, Samantha Fish, Zach Persons, Philip Sayce and Jared James Nichols have their say

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“At the end of the show, Jimmy goes, ‘The way you mix rock and Indian music is something I’ve never seen before’”: Meet the psych-rockers merging Hendrix with 600-year-old Hindustani classical music tradition – who count Jimmy Page among their fans

Frontman and lead guitarist Sameer Khan explains how hotly tipped London psych-rockers Karma Sheen are sticking to their guns, honoring their heritage, and building a bridge between ancient traditions and contemporary sounds to give rise to a new form of Hindustani rock fusion

Louder

"They got signed on their talent, on their original material, but also on their looks. They looked like Robert Plant and Jimmy Page." The story of the album that rescued rock'n'roll from the darkness and built a brighter future

Rock was stale, and dinosaurs were lumbering. Then an album arrived that was an effervescent shot in the arm for an entire genre

Evening Standard

From Gwyneth and Nicole to Boy George and the Gallaghers — inside London's celeb home swap shop

Liam, Noel, Gwynnie, Nicole...why do they all sell to, buy and rent from each other?

Louder

“The school would kick everybody out with hair that touched their ears. Someone on the board found out we were wearing short-haired wigs!” Steve Morse endured educational woes, dodgy gear and jazz snobbery, but knew he could make it as a guitarist

The ex Deep Purple member recalls how he got started in music, and beginning to write Kansas-style songs – long before he accidentally joined them

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‘Every single frame was sweated over’: how Becoming Led Zeppelin became the biggest documentary of the year

Bernard MacMahon’s film about the 70s giants took advantage of audience enthusiasm to make a major impact in cinemas – and it’s just the latest in a string of films about the era of classic rock

Louder

"A man was beheaded there and sometimes you can hear his head rolling down": The historic Loch Ness manor once home to Jimmy Page and Aleister Crowley is opening to the public for the first time in 260 years

A home with a dark history, Boleskin House has been fully restored after being gutted by fire in 2015 and 2019

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