“Whether the long story he gave was real or not, it doesn’t matter”: Teen blues prodigy reunited with his stolen Stevie Ray Vaughan Strat
“I FaceTimed with her parents and said, ‘I like your daughter’s playing. She’s a natural. She plays like Gary Moore’”: How 22-year-old Anna Cara landed the gig of a lifetime with Alice Cooper
“I said, ‘God, you’ve nicked all my things.’ He said, ‘Yeah, I know, man. I know. It’s like a homage to you’”: David Bowie admitted that he stole the Stones’ sound on one classic song, says Mick Jagger
“Höfner offered me this weird-shaped guitar. I said, ‘What the hell is that?!’ They said, ‘It doesn’t have a name yet, but we want you to try it’”: Hugh Cornwell on The Stranglers’ biggest hit, hating Twin Reverbs, and his bizarro Höfner
“We are all devastated by the news and are surrounding her with love”: L7 bassist Jennifer Finch diagnosed with brain cancer
“Pop is getting posher, and that must change. Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not”: UK government announces national strategy for music to “widen opportunity” and invest in “creative careers”
“The crowds hated us! They were only there to see Stevie Ray, and they didn’t give us a chance… One night he called me on stage, and he handed me a Strat”: Brian Setzer on what he learned playing Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Stratocaster
“I’ve thought this through… I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt here, and assuming he doesn’t really think I’m the antichrist”: Phil Collins thinks he might know why Noel Gallagher called him “the antichrist of music” back in the ‘90s
“Kurt would always say, ‘I’m gonna get a Chet Atkins.’ But he never did. It wasn’t until he died that I went and looked at one”: Courtney Love refused to turn Celebrity Skin into “a grieving widow’s memoir” – but she paid tribute with the gear she played
“When you feel like your hands aren’t doing well, and you’d like to take a day off, that’s the day you try and play more”: How Rik Emmett tackled the Triumph reunion tour, with added Phil X
“It’s a piano chord, but I played it with my arse. I was singing and I just wanted a rest, and the piano lid was open. So I sat and I played that chord”: The Police’s classic breakthrough hit – with the ultimate bum note
“She’s a very determined young lady who has pushed herself and keeps going”: Meet the Northern Irish teenager who passed her Grade 8 piano – one handed
“As an 8-year-old, I was like, ‘My 5-year-old sister is better than me at guitar? How is this even possible?’ She was like a savant”: Este Haim on how sibling rivalry, parental persuasion, Princess Peach and Tina Weymouth led her to the bass guitar
“I sat on that song for two decades. I knew that I got something special”: The powerful anthem by Five Finger Death Punch and the dramatic video that shook America
“It’s a major step forward in stem separation technology”: Zplane’s Peel Stems 2 nearly halves the latency of its real-time stem separation plugin
“Hope you will joining us in wishing Simon the speediest of recoveries. And Eden – thanks”: Son of Gallup saves the day for The Cure
Have the Stones played their final show? “Maybe I have!” says Mick Jagger. “You never really know, do you?”
“We’ll see”: Could a Fleetwood Mac Sphere residency be on the cards? It appears that Lindsey Buckingham isn’t ruling it out
“I cannot endorse it. There’s misinformation in it about our early recording sessions”: Dave Davies denounces new Kinks book – and those Jimmy Page rhythm guitar rumors are at the center of it
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