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“He took out this big knife, put it on the table with a loud thud, looked at us and said, There's a lot of crazy people out there.” Eddie Vedder on the night Pearl Jam supported Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards

Supporting Keith Richards was a memorable experience for the members of Pearl Jam

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"Oh my goodness! It's so rousing! Especially the end!": The soundtrack of Gene Simmons' life

Kiss bassist, Demon and fire-breather Gene Simmons picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the "most dishonest" album Kiss ever made

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A beginner's guide to Taj Mahal in 10 essential videos

Highlights from the career of the man formerly known as Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

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"London was implicated in the collusion of a fat music industry bloated on cocaine and bereft of direction": How London lost its lustre

There was a time when all rock and pop roads led to London; you couldn't move without tripping over an icon or a star. Those days are long gone

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"The reason I never made it big is because I never cared whether I made it big or not": The life and death of the guitarist’s guitarist, Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan inspired Jeff Beck, Gary Moore and Joe Bonamassa, but suffered a life of addiction and died a bluesman’s death

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“I don’t get into many fights now cos you get hit on the throat and you miss a gig”: The explosive rise of Lynyrd Skynyrd, America’s greatest southern rock band

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic debut album (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) was released on August 13, 1973, setting them on the path to stardom

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“Being on stage sober was very difficult. Keith wanted his old sparring partner back, and he was making it really hard for me”: How Ronnie Wood survived Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones

Ronnie Wood has played in some of the world’s greatest bands – and the ultimate rock’n’roll survivor has the bruises to prove it

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“An open-tuned five-string guitar is unique and will clearly have niche appeal… but you just can’t help bashing out those classic Keith Richards riffs”: Newman 5 String review

A story that starts on a Rolling Stones USA tour in the early ’70s, Ted Newman’s distinctly shaped design is now being made here in the UK. But the first model is missing a string!

Guitar World

“They celebrate Mozart in Vienna 400 years later and they’ll be celebrating Prince in Minneapolis 400 years from now”: Prince’s old bandmates on Purple Rain, his legacy and more

It’s 40 years ago this weekend since Purple Rain went to Number One in the US – and stayed there for 24 weeks

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“The boys thought the bass needed more bottom-end. So I laid on the floor and punched the organ pedals with my fists”: How Bill Wyman transformed a landmark Rolling Stones track

The Rolling Stones were working to finish their Aftermath album when Bill Wyman made a musical detour

Guitar World

“A wonderful guy that changed the game for all of us”: John Mayall, 1933-2024 – the guitar world pays tribute

Joe Bonamassa, Mick Jagger and Walter Trout have led tributes to the influential British blues pioneer, who has died at the age of 90

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“We were the belt-and-braces Pink Floyd – basic yobbos”: how Hawkwind boldly went where no band had gone before on psychedelic masterpiece In Search Of Space

America had hippies and Woodstock – the UK had greasy, gritty space-heads Hawkwind and their cosmic epic In Search Of Space

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"Some people think that's the best version of the Stones that existed" The rise and fallout of Mick Taylor in The Rolling Stones

"We used to fight and argue all the time"

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“You can hear the influence of those riffs on Guns N’ Roses, but I’m sure it’s not a conscious thing. It’s in our subconscious, ingrained in our DNA”: Richard Fortus on how Aerosmith changed his life, and what he and Slash learned from Joe Perry

The GNR guitarist and Aerosmith super-fan explains what makes Joe Perry one of rock guitar's GOATs and the influence he and Brad Whitford had on him, sonically and sartorially

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“There’s a great picture of me on my knees ripping a guitar solo, and the guitar is bigger than me”: Andrew Watt on the time he shredded at his own bar mitzvah – and what’s next for his Rolling Stones collaborations

Watt went from trying to impress his bar mitzvah guests with his guitar skills, to working with Pearl Jam, Iggy Pop and the Stones

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Top Tory thanks Bob Geldof for saving his seat at the election

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell puts his unlikely win down to the “Geldof Effect”

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“I said, ‘This is what Bill played’ and Mick said, ‘No no, don't play that!’” When he joined the Rolling Stones, Darryl Jones had to change the way he approached classic Bill Wyman basslines

The Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones looks back on joining the fold in 1993

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"Rice Krispies for you and you and you!" That time the Rolling Stones were paid £400 to record a jingle for Kellogg's Rice Krispies

Woke up this morning, got myself some tasty breakfast cereal

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"Brian Jones picked me up and sat me on top of the fruit machine": Why I love Brian Jones, by Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman

Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman pays tribute to late Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones

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"Rock'n'roll is alive, and I need it to stay that way": The Pretty Reckless are on the road with AC/DC, and Taylor Momsen is more than ready to rock

Supporting the Rolling Stones and AC/DC in the same week? Sounds like a pretty good few days

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“The album took off like a rocket ship. It sold 100,000 right away, it was the biggest Muddy Waters album to date”: how Chess Records and Muddy Waters invented psychedelic blues with Electric Mud

In the late 60s, Chess Records persuaded legendary bluesmen Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf to hop on the psychedelic bandwagon – with mixed results

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"The Beatles happened, and it became the thing to be in a beat group": Classic Charlie Watts interview

His heroes, the first recording session, jazz, and what made the Rolling Stones the best - "We swung, a lot"

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"There wasn't too much talking about who should play what, it was a very instinctive kind of relationship": Mick Taylor on life in the Rolling Stones, Altamont and leaving the band

The Rolling Stones’ secret weapon throughout their golden period looks back on his time with the band

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Shuggie Otis's third album was hailed as classic, but his record company dropped him: It took 40 years to make a fourth

The son of an R&B legend, guitar virtuoso Shuggie Otis did it his way, turning down the Rolling Stones and David Bowie in the process

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“There’s always been an open door… We were the only ones that knew what it’s like to have that extreme kind of fame, so that created a bond”: 10 times the Beatles and the Rolling Stones collaborated together

The Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones? Not so much. Here’s our guide to 10 friendly – and occasionally excellent – collaborations between two legendary bands

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