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“I grossly underestimated what I was getting into.” Noel Gallagher on Oasis and his struggles to play in stadiums
By Phil Weller published
Some of the biggest guitarists on the planet suffer from stage fright, and the Les Paul–toting Mancunian is no exception

Paul McCartney's cryptic Instagram post has fans hoping for a new collection of Beatles outtakes and rarities
By Phil Weller published
Three multimedia Anthology projects were released in the mid ’90s, and a fourth may be following in their wake

Randy Bachman on Pete Townshend's hilarious response when the Guess Who told the Who to change their name
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Bachman says the Who's hotel-trashing antics caused his band trouble with staff when “we could not convince them we were quiet Canadians”

John Fogerty on losing Creedence Clearwater Revival’s music and the epiphany he had revisiting one of his greatest tracks
By Phil Weller published
Fogerty, who won a 50-year battle for the ownership of CCR’s music in 2023, celebrates this week with the release of ‘Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years’

Steve Vai on accepting his most impossible guitar gig: playing Eddie Van Halen to David Lee Roth
By Phil Weller published
Vai says he approached the opportunity from a place of love and freedom, not to cut down one of the world’s greatest guitar players

John Lennon had a plan to keep the Beatles going into the 1970s. Paul McCartney rejected it. The rest is history
By Christopher Scapelliti published
A last recorded meeting between Lennon, McCartney and George Harrison revealed how they might have carried on despite their growing differences

Paul McCartney's 1973 TV special is a fascinating moment from his post-Beatles career
By Phil Weller published
While John Lennon and George Harrison established themselves away from the Beatles’ shadow, McCartney struggled to find his feet in a new era

Peter Frampton says Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley used his guitars on Kiss’s smash 1975 live album
By Joe Matera published
The his rock acts were coincidentally working on their breakthrough live albums at Electric Lady Studios in New York City

"I don't think I knew four chords when I started recording. All the songs I liked you could play with two or three chords. We made a lot of noise, got into a lot of fights…" Johnny Cash looks back…
By Chris Gill published
Singing about "death, hell, danger, trouble, killing and murder, blood, and redemption," Johnny Cash's American Recordings marked the beginning of a late-period resurgence. In 1994, he did the Guitar Player Interview…
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