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David Bowie performs on stage on the third and final day of "The Nokia Isle of Wight Festival 2004" at Seaclose Park, on June 13, 2004 in Newport, UK. The third annual rock festival takes place during the Isle of Wight Festival which runs from June 4-19.
The show that ended David Bowie’s touring career. “He says, ‘Keep vamping,’ while he’s having a heart attack”

By Gary Graff Published

Earl Slick recalls the singer’s onstage heart attack and final years

Guitarists
A photo composite for the Ultimate Eric Clapton Guitar Quiz, showing Clapton playing his Blackie Strat during his 'Money and Cigarettes' tour in 1983.
Test your knowledge with The Ultimate Eric Clapton Guitar Quiz

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Think you know everything there is to know about the guitars of Eric Clapton? See where you end up on the leaderboard of the GP quiz…

Electric Guitars
Two Rickenbacker guitars sit against a Vox amp. In the background is a drumkit. The bass drum says "let it Be".
The Ultimate Beatles Guitar Quiz

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Know everything there is to know about the guitars of The Beatles? See where you end up on the leaderboard of the GP quiz…

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Bob Dylan (holding a cigarette) and guitarist Mike Bloomfield (seated) take a break during the recording of the album 'Highway 61 Revisited' surrounded by an assortment of microphones, amplifiers and guitars in Columbia's Studio A in the summer of 1965 in New York City, New York.
Bob Dylan and Jorma Kaukonen on the guitar icon who led an electric blues revolution and died alone and unknown

By Alan di Perna Published

Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated discomfort with success

Guitarists
Gram Parsons poses in his Nudie suit circa 1969
Roger McGuinn and Keith Richards remember Gram Parsons, who laid a path for the ’70s California sound and died at 26

By Alan di Perna Published

Despite his tumultuous lifestyle, the country-rock pioneer delivered transcendent music with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and his own Fallen Angels

Guitarists
Freddie Mercury and Brian May of Queen perform July 27, 1983 at Madison Square Garden on January 11, 2012 in New York City.
Brian May says Freddie Mercury upstaged him playing guitar on one of Queen’s biggest hits

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Mercury dreamed up the song in the bath, then recorded the rhythm guitar and even attempted the solo before May had a chance to play on the track

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British guitarist Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, photographed at the Lygon Arms hotel in Worcestershire, England, on January 7, 2020.
What happened when Tony Iommi tried to play guitar without his false fingertips

By Martin Kielty Published

Black Sabbath icon discusses the “thimbles” he couldn’t live without — and why his trash collectors might not like it

Guitarists
Gabriela Quintero (L) and Rodrigo Sanchez of Rodrigo y Gabriela perform in concert during the 'By Request Tour' at ACL Live on September 26, 2021 in Austin, Texas.
Rodrigo y Gabriela on how their studio cat’s death led them back to acoustic guitars

By Jimmy Leslie Published

The duo reveal how abandoning a full-band project led them back to their acoustic roots after the loss of their beloved pet.

Guitarists
John Lennon playing Gibson J-160E in 1964
John Lennon hated it. Behind the Rubber Soul track he wished he'd never written

By Elizabeth Swann Published

As Rubber Soul gets a Super Deluxe reissue, we revisit the surprising Elvis-inspired origins of Lennon’s darkest Beatles cut

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The Beatles, (left to right) Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison (1943 - 2001), and John Lennon (1940 - 1980), pose for a group portrait during a rehearsal for a taping of a segment to be aired September 12 on The Ed Sullivan Show, New York, August 14, 1965.
How the Beatles reinvented the recording studio with Rubber Soul

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

The making of Rubber Soul marked the moment the Beatles began taking control of the recording process, launching the sonic experimentation that would define Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

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