28 years ago John Rzeznick wrote this Goo Goo Dolls hit on a guitar with four strings. It’s now been streamed nearly 4 billion times
“I’ve been working with Phil Oakey on music for the first time in 45 years”: We catch up with Heaven 17 and Human League trailblazer Martyn Ware
“Claude admitted: ‘These renders keep landing very close to the originals: same structure, same hooks reused with light rewording, and full sets of verses/choruses/bridges’”: AI firm Anthropic hit with $41 million lawsuit by owners of Elvis catalogue
“Then he got to ‘and I want you for all time’ and said, ‘Ultimately, Wichita Lineman is about an ordinary man thinking extraordinary thoughts’”: Jimmy Webb says that hearing Billy Joel deconstruct the lyrics to his greatest song brought him to tears
“There were some grim circumstances behind the record and it was made with whatever equipment I could get my wife to bring to the hospital”: James Ellis Ford on making his latest album while battling cancer
“It’s spectacularly hard because the guitars play in 5/4 and the drums play in 17/8. It’s a very clever piece of music. I love playing it. But it’s a tough one”: Gavin Harrison on the polyrhythmic King Crimson classic that’s incredibly difficult to play
“I think we really should have helped him out by transposing the key of the songs for him. But we didn’t, and it was a tough time”: Drummer Nicko McBrain admits that Iron Maiden didn’t do enough for singer Blaze Bayley when he replaced Bruce Dickinson
“He was an amazing big brother to me and I just hate to see him leave, but I’m glad he is at peace”: Jack White mourns Eddie Gillis, who “taught me so many wonderful and simple things”
“Musically, it is just so clever and so advanced and so mad and also it has such a deep emotional heart”: After singing the praises of Raye’s latest album, organist Anna Lapwood plays a Wedding March intro to Where Is My Husband! at the Royal Albert Hall
“There’s no limit on the variety of sounds that can be dialed up.” We review the Positive Grid Reactor 50 combo
“There is a generous reward for its safe return”: Joe Bonamassa issues plea for the return of Josh Smith’s missing amp
“There are no layoffs associated with these quiet weeks, and employees will return in the new year”: Fender responds to rumours of layoffs after WARN notice
Jack White mourns his older brother who helped shape him as a guitarist: “The world lost a beautiful soul today”
“We pulled out handwritten lyrics, original album sketches, and private photos, some of which haven’t left our archive in over 40 years”: Talking Heads announce new book for 2027
Looking to start your metal guitar journey? The Ibanez GIO RG range will get you set up and shredding in no time
“I tried to describe with the song what it was like to feel that rush, that elation, and then the awful sleep that comes with that drug, and then scream, ‘I’m wide awake!’”: How U2 created the experimental anti-drug song that lit up Live Aid
“All credit to Les Paul and Paul Reed Smith, but they were never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”: RKS Guitars’ Ravi Sawhney on the late Dave Mason’s musical legacy – and how it lives on in the guitar brand they founded
“Frank Zappa was in the same league as Lennon and McCartney. He was an extraordinary songwriter”: How Conrad St. Clair went from Juilliard-trained flautist to playing 6-string bass with The Furious Bongos and soundchecking B.B. King
“When I first saw the Strokes performing in New York, I was much more interested in the band that opened up for them”: Gordon Raphael tells us about his first meeting with The Strokes
