“I was like, are these guys just really dumb?”: Beabadoobee admits she thought This Is Spinal Tap was a real documentary when she first watched it
“She is so interested in really talking about the music that she makes, and how and why, and I found it very inspiring to hang out with her”: Madonna and Charli XCX cement their friendship with a new collab single
“I thought it was nice to give something to the SE. When I was growing up, the more accessible guitar got punished”: John Mayer makes the black pickguard Silver Sky a reality in the most unexpected place – a Land Rover Defender collaboration
I played my beloved Strat when I opened for Weezer. It got me discovered by Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready. Then I gave it away to a prison
“I was nervous that Jerry would go, ‘Are you ripping off my sound?’ I fixed that problem by having him play it!” Tim Montana grew up with no electricity and running water. Now he’s collaborating with Jerry Cantrell, Slash and Billy Gibbons
“As soon as Freddie started singing, my three year-old was dancing around like a lunatic. I was like, ‘We’re not going to have a problem here’”: We talk to the team behind a live gig-style presentation of one of Queen’s most extraordinary shows
Metallica’s James Hetfield on Tony Iommi and the Black Sabbath riff that shaped his playing: “He is the riff lord”
A criminal record: The man behind the UK’s biggest fake vinyl factory goes down for three and a half years
“Primitive and somewhat unformed, but still instantly recognisable”: How some lost David Bowie songs were discovered in a Californian loft
“It’s been a weird week. I just feel like it happened very quickly”: Ed Sheeran speaks about censorship and the Israel-Palestine conflict on stage in Philadelphia
“It will be on the the obituary, won’t it? ‘He was found in a cheap hotel that was about to close down, and he had a cheap rate on the room.’ You don’t need that”: At 76, rock legend Carl Palmer reveals his hopes and fears for the future
“I have explored space. I have explored time. Now… I explore distortion”: Watch William Shatner cover Ace Of Spades at his metal band’s live debut
“We played SXSW. A week later, our bassist gets an email – Dan Auerbach saw us play. He’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to come to Nashville and record?’” Meet the Animeros, the Auerbach-approved guitar trio with big-screen appeal
“I felt what Capitol label head Gary Gersh did was malevolent and almost vindictive. He just kicked me to the curb”: Billy Squier on his classic album that went unheard when the label tried to bury it
