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“Paul McCartney likes to control things under the guise of saying, ‘Play as free as you like.’ Then he’ll start to pick it all apart”: Chris Spedding’s favorite sessions

From handling Jack Bruce’s temper, to Brian Eno’s budget studio and Macca’s post-Beatles era, the UK session veteran picks his most treasured moments

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“I was always uneasy about the fact that it was a bright, perky pop song about a nuclear holocaust, but it was insanely catchy”: How OMD recorded one of the best anti-war songs ever made

And it’s pretty much the only song about a nuclear bomb you can get away with playing at a wedding

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“We’ve been through guitar player after guitar player. We get to the solo, and he nails it. I just thought, ‘Oh my God’”: Dave Mustaine recounts the hiring and firing of every Megadeth guitarist

As Megadeth prepare for their final album release and tour, Mustaine looks back at some Mega-memories, the ghosts that still haunt him and the lead guitarists he played with along the way

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“I was living on my own. Things had gone off the rails a bit, drinking too much”: It was in a weird time signature and their old singer struggled to play it, but this huge hit helped turn a 70s prog band into 80s pop stars

Turn It On Again would be a huge turning point for Genesis

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“We knew we’d done something great, but we didn’t know we’d written a defining album for that era”: How 747 (Strangers In The Night) made Saxon unexpected stars of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal

Inspired by a widespread blackout in the 1960s, the Yorkshire band switched from their usual “street fighting and girls” lyrics and reached new heights

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“Each of them impacted the instrument in their own way, as luthiers, hitmakers, session players, or air guitar-inspiring soloists”: Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2025

2025 has been a big year for the guitar, but we've also had to sadly say goodbye to dozens of guitar greats, from many eras, and every imaginable genre. Here, we recognize those guitarists, and their contributions to the instrument

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“I heard someone playing deep, fiery guitar in the room next door. I thought, ‘Boy, I wish that guy was in the band!’ I looked over the balcony… It was Ace”: The otherworldly life and times of Kiss guitar icon Ace Frehley

The Spaceman leaves a legacy of millions of fans rocked, countless players inspired, and a rock guitar scene that will never be the same again

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“Dave and I were in a position where there was no Plan B. There was no escape hatch”: Megadeth were broke, homeless and way behind Metallica. But this thrash classic inspired by Patti Smith and written on a borrowed bass would change everything

How Megadeth wrote a landmark thrash metal classic in the midst of personal and financial chaos

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“A good guitar solo should sound like an orgasm. I can hear it in Eddie Van Halen’s playing, and Jimi Hendrix. I live for the juicy notes”: Carlos Santana on playing like a soul singer and his visitations from B.B. King, Miles Davis and Stevie Ray Vaughan

Single-cuts are like merlot, solos are like grapefruit… the inimitable, peerless Carlos Santana shares stories from his legendary career and insights from the cosmos

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“As soon as Jimmy Page came on, the roof came off the place! Afterwards, Plant was absolutely fuming”: The epic, ego-fuelled story of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath’s Live Aid reunions

In Juy 1985, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath reunited for Live Aid. Cue the spats and ego clashes

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Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarists through the years: the players who served the Prince of Darkness for his classic albums and tours, in pictures

The Black Sabbath frontman shared stage and studio with a pantheon of guitar greats, and made household names out of many of his six-string sideman

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“From the very beginning, they never asked me to play more like Duane”: Warren Haynes on what Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts told him when he joined the Allman Brothers Band

Haynes knew the significance of stepping into the Allman Brothers Band but he had the chops, he knew the material inside and out, and he had been playing with Betts for years

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“What did we get for being innovative? We got slaughtered by everyone. That’s what you face for trying something new”: How Saxon made Crusader, the album that marked the end of their early 80s glory years

Biff Byford looks back on Saxon’s divisive 1984 album Crusader

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“Beat It was interesting. Of course, Eddie Van Halen did the solo. But the rest of the guitars were Steve Lukather and myself...” Session ace Paul Jackson Jr. on how he became Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones’ go-to guitarist

From meeting Michael Jackson at 19, to playing with B.B. King and on Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, his career has thrived on variety – but the session great tells us it starts with your ears, not your hands...

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“We went back to the dressing room. He said, ‘Yeah, it stays in tune great! But if you could make it a little slinkier’”: Gibson’s master luthier Jim DeCola reveals the Leo Fender-inspired mods he made to Randy Rhoads’ guitar just hours before showtime

DeCola was still only a teenager in 1982 but he had already had a reputation for being able to work magic on a tremolo system, which he duly did on Rhoads' iconic polka-dotted Sandoval V

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“It was total overkill. We were getting in all sorts of trouble. I thought, ‘I’ve got two months of this, I’m going to be dead at the end of it!’” The epic story of Iron Maiden‘s conquest of America

In 1981, a young Iron Maiden made their first trip to the USA. And the USA didn’t know what hit it

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"He did the heroin, fell down, and stopped breathing": If you want wild and dangerous tales, Johnny Winter's story has them all

Deranged bandmates. Mysterious demises. Narrow escapes. Plus run-ins with scumbag managers and self-destructive associates

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10 legendary blues guitars, from Lucille to Lucy and the ‘Loch Ness Monster of Les Pauls’ – a priceless Gibson that has been missing for more than 50 years

Named and famed! Behind every great blues player is a great guitar, and they don’t come more iconic than this...

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“We took influences from the New York hardcore scene. Our stuff was faster than in the Bay Area”: the 100mph story of East Coast thrash

The inside story of 80s thrash’s great East Coast vs West Coast rivalry

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"There are no words in any language to express how badly I feel about that night": The strange and terrible story of Great White, and the Station nightclub fire

Great White toured with Guns N' Roses, hit the charts, and dissolved in a blur of betrayal and substance abuse. And, just when it couldn’t get worse, they played Rhode Island

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“Eddie was like a new sun appearing in the sky. You could sense that the world would never be the same”: From the big bang of Eruption to tone tips and warm-ups – Paul Gilbert shares the knowledge gleaned from a lifetime studying Eddie Van Halen

The shred icon salutes his greatest influence – with the insight of a fellow guitar obsessive

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Worst Ozzy Osbourne tribute ever? British pub’s inexplicable Photoshop gaffe removes Randy Rhoads and hands his polka dot V to Ozzy instead

This Birmingham pub’s tribute to Osbourne and the birth of Black Sabbath went very wrong indeed

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We've found the world's most grotesque tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and it's in a Birmingham pub

A new Wetherspoons pub in the Home Of Metal has paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and it's not good at all

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Tina Weymouth: “I know Bono used me to taunt Adam Clayton when U2 were starting out”

One of the bass world’s most influential female figures talks gender stereotypes and why her small stature was “almost like a dare to boys”

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What happened the night Stevie Ray Vaughan died - by those who were there

On August 27, 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan played the gig of his life. Just hours later he was killed when his helicopter crashed in thick fog. This is the inside story of that tragic day

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