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How Elvis Costello and a Whitney Houston movie turned a failed song into a million-dollar payday
The pub-rock icon thought his tune had vanished for good — until a few seconds in ‘The Bodyguard’ changed everything.
“Can you make it more green?” Jeff “Skunk” Baxter recalls his strangest studio sessions — from Steely Dan to Dolly Parton
The longtime Dan and Doobie Brothers guitarist recalls one-take solos, the $20 guitar behind a disco hit, and Parton’s request for “sparkles.”
Jack White on the accident that forced a major change in his guitar playing
In the wake of a freak car mishap, the guitarist had to relearn how to form chords without the use of his index finger
“The guitar is like this magic wand.” Bill Frisell on imagination, collaboration and the guitar guiding his new album
The jazz great speaks with us about creative humility, turning 75 and why ‘In My Dreams’ is about collective conversation — not guitar heroics
Matteo Mancuso on why he plays fingerstyle on electric — and how he got Steve Vai to work with him
The Sicilian virtuoso spoke with us on a rare visit to the United States
Steve Stevens on smashed guitars, being pushed offstage — and what he discovered watching Billy Idol’s new documentary
As ‘Billy Idol Should Be Dead’ hits theaters, the New York native talks highlights from his long career with the British rocker
oni Mitchell on the guitar she got from a Vietnam soldier — it vanished after she wrote and recorded her signature hits with it
Mitchell said her 1956 Martin D-28 helped create ‘Blue’ and her most beloved songs. Losing it changed her relationship with guitars forever.
The night Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger discovered the blues
Before Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones, they heard the blues live — and were inspired to change rock music forever
