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“Can't wait to celebrate 90 years of living, loving, and playing the blues”: Buddy Guy's 90th birthday party could be the gig of the year – and Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, and Joe Bonamassa are all invited

The guitar maverick is turning 90, and he's celebrating with what he does best – a one-of-a-kind bonanza bringing together the top names in blues

Guitar World

Rock's 20 greatest one-album wonders: The bands that made one album then vanished

They came, they saw, they disappeared – these are the bands who made one perfect album then split up

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"Everybody was leaning over the banisters to listen to this guy sitting in the corner of the club playing. They were enthralled.” This is what happened when Jimi Hendrix landed in London for the first time

When Hendrix arrived in the UK in 1966, the rock world tilted on its axis and he shot from unknown to superstar and changed everything

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“Eric Clapton isn’t God. Jack Bruce is. When I was 14 I sprayed his name on my bedroom wall in luminous paint to remind me who the greatest bass player in the world is”: Jeff Berlin on meeting his bass hero – and playing White Room alongside him

According to bass virtuoso Jeff Berlin, Jack Bruce is still the bass guitar’s most underrated innovator

Guitar World

“I have no idea what the first song I learned was. My memory has been worn down by copious LSD experiments”: Billy Squier on saving his ’59 Les Paul from a fire, the world’s greatest Marshall and why he stopped practicing

The man behind The Stroke and Lonely Is the Night checks in to talk all things guitar, imposter syndrome and the enduring appeal of his 1960 Tele Custom

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"People used to say to me, 'Oh, you're better than Eric Clapton.' I didn’t know where to put myself." The triumph and tragedy of Peter Green, the man who founded Fleetwood Mac

Peter Green was one of the greatest guitarists of the late 60s British blues boom – but he never truly conquered his demons

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"An album that in the late 60s was the gold standard for broad-based and improvisational rock." Cream's classic studio/live double album Wheels Of Fire has been pumped full of hot air

The super deluxe version of Cream's Wheels Of Fire: Now available in triple vinyl or quintuple CD

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“Clapton in Crossroads, Gilmour in Comfortably Numb and Peter Green in Black Magic Woman… all have their own take on how they approach rhythms in the phrasing”: The secret to great guitar solos isn’t technique – it’s rhythm

All the greats put themselves into their phrasing, and that identity was not only note choice but rhythm. Here are four ways you can add rhythmic interest to great effect

Guitar World

“I found myself sitting next to Keith Richards – just two guys playing the guitar. Doesn’t get much better than that!” From Eric Clapton to Daft Punk and Avenged Sevenfold, Greg Leisz has played with everyone. But don’t call him a session guitarist

He says finding himself working with Matthew Sweet, k.d. lang, and Lucinda Williams has been a dream. But he still wants his stolen ’64 Strat back

Guitar World

"Are you a guitarist too?" The day that rock legends Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Brian May and Jeff Beck met Queen Elizabeth II

"It doesn’t matter at all that she did not know who we are"

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“I was on the way to Eric Clapton’s Crossroads festival and I got a DM from John Mayer…” Tom Misch on the time his guitar hero reached out of the blue and offered to join him on stage

The jazz-funk guitar star was on his way to play the Crossroads Guitar Festival when Mayer messaged him

Guitar World

“He took some small songs of mine that nobody paid any attention to and turned them all into classics”: 11 cover songs that Jimi Hendrix made his own – including one that became Eric Clapton’s favorite Hendrix track

Once Hendrix turned his Stratocaster upon a song it would never be the same again. Just ask Bob Dylan

Guitar World

Keith Richards created the most iconic riff in rock in his sleep – and other key moments from the new Rolling Stones biography

IN FOCUS: A new book about the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band traces their extraordinary history, from the notorious Altamont concert to the Rock and Roll Circus, meeting Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg, and the Redlands raid. Roisin O’Connor chooses just some of the key moments

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“You’re not going to get the perfect guitar just because it’s old and cool and original and worth money”: Eric Johnson tells us why vintage is not always best (even if he regrets selling his ’54 Strat)

The guitar-tone guru reflects on the instruments that have passed through his hands, and offers some advice for anyone shopping for a new guitar

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“I had a little too much Jack Daniels and went to sleep. Early the next morning, I woke up to Eric and George playing ukuleles at the foot of my bed”: The first time session pro George Terry met a Beatle

Terry was Clapton's guitarist in the 1970s, and through Slowhand he was able to meet a particularly famous face

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From Cream and Velvet Revolver to Them Crooked Vultures and Temple Of The Dog, these are the best supergroups in rock history

Some supergroups just aren't worth the sum of their parts. These are the exceptions

Evening Standard

Satisfaction for Mick Jagger as 29-storey tower by the Thames blocked

A planning battle over the proposed 100m tower has raged for over two years

International Business Times UK

Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Felicity Kendal Halt Thames Tower Plan in Stunning Celebrity Planning Victory

Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton successfully opposed a 29-storey tower in west London, preserving historic views along the Thames. The decision marks a victory for local residents and heritage campaigners.

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Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton win battle to stop 29-storey block being built by Thames

Planning inspector backs council’s rejection of development, which was ‘not exemplary, extraordinary, remarkable or distinctive, just tall’

The Independent UK

Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Harry Hill join forces to block 100m London high-rise

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Developer can’t get no satisfaction as Jagger wins battle to stop Thames tower block

The plan has been rejected as it would ‘cause a dramatic change to the skyline’

The Mary Sue

Eric Clapton’s Madrid show cut short after a fan’s shocking mid-concert attack with a vinyl record

Eric Clapton’s Madrid concert came to an abrupt end last week after a fan launched a vinyl record at him mid-performance, leaving the 81-year-old visibly shaken. The incident happened on May 7 at Movistar Arena, just as Clapton finished playing his 1997 hit Cocaine. Instead of returning for his planned…

The Independent UK

Bring Me the Horizon frontman suffers concussion after being struck by phone mid-show

Rocker said he ‘should be fine’ to perform Wednesday’s concert

The Guardian - UK

Bring Me the Horizon and Eric Clapton struck by objects thrown by audience members

British pop-metallers’ frontman Oli Sykes suffers concussion after phone strikes him on the head, in latest in spate of similar incidents faced by musicians

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Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes suffered concussion after fan threw phone at him during gig

Oli Sykes updated fans after he was struck by a phone thrown by a fan during a Bring Me The Horizon gig this week.

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