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Win tickets to an all-star tribute to David Lindley led by Papa Mali and Wally Ingram in New Orleans
Guitar Player Presents an all-star cast at Papa Mali’s New Orleans birthday bash. It’s a special Jazz Fest after party at Chickie Wah Wah on Sunday, May 3
Bruce Springsteen celebrates the Doors, the E Street Band, Patti Smith and others at the American Music Honors
Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt and Doors drummer John Densmore perform “Light My Fire” as others are honored at the Springsteen Center’s annual event
“He said ‘I’ll f***ing do it, darling!’” Brian May on Freddie Mercury’s most defiant recording
May recalls how the dying singer downed a vodka and delivered one of the greatest vocals of his life
Samantha Fish doesn’t like her first live album — that’s why she did it right with her latest, ‘Paper Doll Live’
The blues-rock guitarist’s latest release builds on the Grammy Award–nominated success of her 2025 studio album
Brian May on the chart-topping Queen hit Freddie Mercury composed while getting ready one morning
John Lennon said the song inspired his return to the studio in 1980 for his final album, ‘Double Fantasy’
“I thought it was just a little bit too simple.” Tom Petty almost gave away his biggest hit — five years after he wrote it
It took a persistent producer and a blunt comment from a studio assistant to convince him to dust off the gem and claim it for the Heartbreakers
“I was feeling like I had so much s*** to hurl at the tape.” How Sheryl Crow broke up her hit-making band with just two words
A remark during a David Letterman interview ignited tensions with the musicians who helped create one of her earliest career-defining tracks.
Bruce Springsteen hated Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light,” says singer Chris Thompson
The guitarist recalls the tape-machine glitch that created rock’s most infamous misheard lyric — and the awkward dinner where he asked Springsteen what he thought.
