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Description : LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 3: British heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne performing live on stage at The Roundhouse, July 3, 2010, Camden. Ozzy Osbourne is also famous for being the lead singer of Black Sabbath

Zakk Wylde on his favorite untold Ozzy Osbourne story

By Phil Weller published

Ozzy’s comments might have been in jest, but Wylde’s reply speaks volumes

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Andy SUMMERS and POLICE, Andy Summers performing live onstage, playing Fender Telecaster guitar, January 1981

Andy Summers on the history-making $200 guitar behind the Police’s biggest hits

By Phil Weller published

Summers also busts the Clapton myth about the guitar’s origins

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LEFT: Frank Zappa with Jimi Hendrix's burned and restored Stratocaster from the 1968 Miami Pop Festival, featured here on the cover of Guitar Player's January 1977 issue. RIGHT: Steve Vai with his Ibanez JEM 7 guitar, taken on June 15, 2009.

Steve Vai on the radical guitar mods he learned from Frank Zappa

By Phil Weller published

Zappa was never a conservationist when it came to his guitars. That lit a fuse under a young Steve Vai

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Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne holding a large bottle of whiskey at his home in 1988.

Ozzy Osbourne on cocaine, conflict and the bitter irony of being fired from Black Sabbath

By Phil Weller published

Ozzy said it was a case of the “pot calling the kettle black”

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LEFT: Jack White photographed by Eleanor Jane for Guitar Player, 2022. RIGHT: Prince performs during his "Welcome 2 America" tour at The Forum on April 14, 2011 in Inglewood, California.

Jack White on the priceless advice Prince gave him

By Phil Weller published

The pair only met once, but what the Purple One said resonated with the newly inducted Hall of Famer

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Robert Fripp photographed with his 1959 Gibson Les Paul Custom, the guitar behind much of his early groundbreaking work, in 2022.

Robert Fripp on a briefcase of cash, a music store showdown and the ’59 Les Paul Custom that powered King Crimson’s most radical music.

By Phil Weller published

The guitar behind Fripp’s prog-rock breakthrough nearly met a different fate

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Glenn Frey of the Eagles tuning up at Anaheim Stadium, Sept 28 1975

Don Henley on loss, legacy and the end of the Eagles

By Phil Weller published

The group’s cofounder says their shows at the Las Vegas Sphere will be their last

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American country singer and musician Johnny Cash poses for photographers at the Savoy Hotel in London. 17th September 1959.

Johnny Cash on the true story behind his infamous signature song

By Chris Gill published

The celebrated country icon spoke with us as he enjoyed a long-awaited — and much-deserved — career revival

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Warren Haynes of the American band Govt Mule performs live on stage during a concert at the Huxleys on November 3, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

Win tickets to see Warren Haynes perform on his “Winter of Warren” solo tour at Guitar Player Presents

By Jimmy Leslie published

The Gov’t Mule leader and Allman Brothers Band veteran makes a rare solo jaunt out west when he comes to Santa Cruz on February 15

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Dr. John performs live on stage at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland in July 1973. He was enjoying success with his hit song "Right Place, Wrong Time," which peaked at number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 that summer, making it the 24th biggest hit of 1973 in the U.S.

Dr. John on the fight that nearly killed his guitar-playing dreams — and set him on a new path to music immortality 

By Bill Milkowski published

Years before he scored his 1973 hit, Mac Rebennack was in the wrong place at the wrong time — and changed his life forever

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