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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
Before the Oscar, before ‘The Big Lebowski,’ Jeff Bridges was ready to give his life to music. Then Hollywood intervened
The actor's history as a musician wasn’t fully revealed until his 2009 Oscar-winning role in ‘Crazy Heart’
How Neil Diamond, a bag of weed and a twice-rejected song turned a pair of struggling young guitarists into global stars
As the Bellamy Brothers reveal, they were hurting for a hit when they befriended Diamond’s band. The rest is history
Scotty Moore on the night Elvis Presley walked into Sun Records — and the session that launched the King’s career
As Baz Lurhmann’s new ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’ comes to screens, we revisit Guitar Player’s classic interview with Presley’s first guitarist
Julian Lage says noise from cellphone towers made recording his guitars impossible. Just by luck, he had a fix
The guitarist was cutting his new album near the Empire State Building, where interference from 5G towers was excessively strong
Al Jardine on the Beach Boys’ “lost album” and Brian Wilson’s strangest comeback
As ‘We Gotta Groove’ highlights a polarizing, two-year period in the group‘s history, the long-running guitarist reflects on a band in transition
Jorma Kaukonen on how he forged the sound of psychedelic rock on Jefferson Airplane’s groundbreaking hit
Kaukonen was still making the transition from acoustic to electric guitar when he improvised his transformational solo
George Harrison on the time Eric Clapton asked for a little help from his friend
The two guitarists were growing closer as friends and musicians when they leaned on the other for assistance
