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October 19
- Roger McGuinn says Bob Dylan didn't recognize his own song when the Byrds performed it for him: “That’s one of your songs, man’”
October 18
- The show that ended David Bowie’s touring career. “He says, ‘Keep vamping,’ while he’s having a heart attack. Then he started grabbing his chest.”
October 17
- What future rocker sold Eric Clapton a Les Paul when his was stolen? What metal guitar hero bought a Strat from Slowhand? Test your knowledge with The Ultimate Eric Clapton Guitar Quiz
October 16
- Which Beatles song did Paul first play guitar on? Who did John want to replace George? Test your knowledge with The Ultimate Beatles Guitar Quiz
October 13
- Bob Dylan and Jorma Kaukonen on the guitar icon who led a blues revolution and died alone and unknown: “It’s tragic the way he died. He made the blues accessible to a lot of guys like me”
- “He was shaking the last time I saw him. He had the same thing that killed Lowell George.” Roger McGuinn and Keith Richards remember Gram Parsons, who laid a path for the ’70s California sound and died at 26
October 11
- Brian May says Freddie Mercury upstaged him by playing guitar on one of Queen’s biggest hits: “It took half an hour to record”
October 7
- What happened when Tony Iommi tried to play guitar without his false fingertips: “There was blood all over the place”
October 5
- Rodrigo y Gabriela on how their studio cat’s passing led them back to acoustic guitars: “That’s the gift of death — to face what’s truly important”
October 3
- John Lennon hated it. Behind the Rubber Soul track he wished he'd never written: “It’s my least favorite Beatles song”
October 2
- How the Beatles reinvented the recording studio with Rubber Soul. “EMI had very firm rules,” Paul McCartney recalled, “which we always had to break”
- “I just want it known I'm allowed to put four songs on the album, whatever happens.” John Lennon had a plan to keep the Beatles going into the 1970s. Paul McCartney rejected it. The rest is history