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“In ’73 it was listed in Melody Maker for £400. Glad you enjoyed it”: Phil Manzanera finally finds out the real story behind his iconic Firebird – 50 years after he bought it

The guitar’s previous owner has explained his side of the story

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“They told me, ‘David Gilmour’s not going to like this. You’re going to hear some thunder!’ You think he’s going to be one way and then he goes completely the other. And that’s good”: Pink Floyd’s Indiana Jones adventure with The Endless River

Gilmour, Nick Mason and colleagues on assembling the unexpected 2014 album that paid tribute to Rick Wright, and his calming presence in a group who were “never a jolly bunch of friends”

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Watch Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay perform rocking live version of No Church In The Wild

Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, Andy Kackay and Paul Thompson will release new live album AM PM Soho Live, in September

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Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay share live version of Roxy Music's Out Of The Blue as they announce new AM PM Soho Live album

Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, Andy Kackay and Paul Thompson unite for new live album AM PM Soho Live, out in September

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“I heard the Money solo and thought, ‘This is amazing!’ So I sent David a telegram saying, ‘Remember me? I'm in a band now called Roxy Music’”: Phil Manzanera on his friendship with David Gilmour, and the key to the Pink Floyd man's unmistakable tone

The two guitarists have worked on several records together, giving Manzanera the inside baseball of the tricks behind Gilmour's iconic guitar tone

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“I was working with David Gilmour and I said, ‘I can't work out how to play this.’ He couldn't either’”: Phil Manzanera tried to relearn one of his classic riffs after it was sampled by Kanye West and Jay-Z – and even the Pink Floyd hero couldn’t help him

The Roxy Music legend was ultimately saved by a younger player, who helped him get to grips once again with the iconic hook

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Level 42's Mark King bought a milk float to get his big music break

Level 42's lead vocalist and bassist Mark King bought his milk round float for £35 to drive to London from the Isle of Wright to get his music break.

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"I did start by saying: 'Do we need another guitar solo here?'" David Gilmour on boomer fortune and the making of Luck And Strange

For Luck And Strange David Gilmour assembled a team that produced "the best album I've made since The Dark Side Of The Moon"

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“Roxy insisted I have a white Strat – I bought that guitar off Brian Eno, who bought it off his milkman for 30 quid!” Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on how he found his bargain Firebird and why he has no regrets about rendering a ’51 Tele “valueless”

The Roxy Music guitarist invites us into his London studio to take a look at the guitars that he cut five decades of hits with, and tells us how a globe-trotting childhood led him to art-rock Shangri-La in ’70s London

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“I know it sounds like a joke musical but one of my ancestors was a pirate in the Caribbean. He looked a bit like I did when I was 21 in Roxy Music”: The amazing things Phil Manzanera discovered when he looked into his past

After writing a memoir, the guitarist has done the musical equivalent with an 11-disc box set exploring his five-decade career. He explains how he landed his dream gig, how Robert Fripp beat him to a tonal ambition, and why, in a way, Roxy is still active

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Parkinson’s community ‘felt left out in the cold’ – Rory Cellan-Jones

The former BBC News journalist announced in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

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Christopher Nolan and Christian Horner to be honoured at investiture ceremony

The Inception director will receive a knighthood from the King on the same day that his wife, film producer Emma Thomas, receives a damehood.

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“I went to this very posh house in Regent’s Park in London, knocked on the door and this 16-year-old American kid held it up. I said, ‘It’s a red guitar – I’ll have it!’” How Phil Manzanera got his trademark Roxy Music Gibson Firebird

Manzanera’s iconic Firebird has been by his side for much of his career and began life as a custom build from Kalamazoo

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"A demonstration of Manzanera's unending quest to make music without borders": Phil Manzanera's collegiate spirit evident on the sprawling box set 50 Years Of Music

11-CD collection of Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera's solo work

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Out of office: What the Wallpaper* editors have been doing this week

Team Wallpaper* are hard to pin down. Here's what our editors have been up to this week that might inspire your own downtime, from films to food, architours to musical interludes

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Kate Bush graces the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Tony Banks, John Lees Barclay James Harvest, Opeth, Phil Manzanera, Frost*, Von Hertzen Brothers, Stuckfish, Haze and more

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Phil Manzanera 11-disc box set 50 Years Of Music to be released in November

50 Years Of Music features every Phil Manzanra solo studio album, from 1975's Diamond Head through to 2015's Sound Of Blue

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“I’m not a classical composer… but with a 16-piece orchestra you get a big lift that you can’t reproduce on anything else”: When Andy Mackay took Roxy Music tracks on a new journey

The Roxy Music saxophonist reflects back on an eclectic career...

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“They’d been to university, they had bank accounts; two of them were teachers; they had a car; they’d got a bank loan to buy a PA!”: Phil Manzanera always knew Roxy Music were going to make it

Guitarist who failed his first audition recalls making 1972 debut album for just £5,000

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“Even Bowie must have thought, ‘Hang on, these guys have appeared out of nowhere, how did that happen?!’”: Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on the meteoric rise of the glam-rock trailblazers

The group went from zero to heroes when their self-titled debut blew up big in 1972

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Phil Manzanera on being sampled by Kanye West and Jay-Z: "Who knew that I would earn more money from a short guitar riff that I wrote one evening on a sofa in front of the telly in 1978 than I ever earned in the entire 50 years as a member of Roxy Music?"

The guitarist had no say in his riff being used on Watch The Throne track No Church In The Wild but says he received a one-third share of the publishing and royalties revenue

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Phil Manzanera announces Revolución to Roxy memoir

Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera will release new memoir Revolución to Roxy in March

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”They called me about a week after Jeff Porcaro passed… they’d grown up together, they’d lost a blood brother, and suddenly the all-American West Coast band has a tea bag in it!” How Simon Phillips joined and left Toto

The multi-genre drummer spent over two decades with the band – but insists it was surprisingly easy to leave when the time came

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“It needs a tune – but we’ll do that free of charge!”: Meet the Gibson Firebird that Jimmy Page lost in a drinking game with John Bonham

This heavily modified Non-Reverse Gibson Firebird III is a lost Led Zeppelin guitar with a fascinating history – we get the story behind the Page-owned beauty and the buoyant market for Gibson’s under-appreciated cult hero

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"We could have been bigger had we had an amazing manager. We’re our own worst enemies": How Roxy Music got it together despite themselves

They looked like they were from “Planet Zog” and sneaked through a gap created by drug addiction - but the members accept they could have made it easier for themselves

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