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Vintage vinyl record cover - Ronson, Mick - Play Don't Worry - US - 1975
How the search for Mick Ronson’s Ziggy Stardust Les Paul ended in $200,000 and heartache

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

How Rick Tedesco found and lost his dream guitar.

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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.
“I could phone up Eric Clapton and he’d buy it.” Robert Fripp on the six-figure guitar behind King Crimson’s breakthrough

By Phil Weller Published

The 1959 Gibson Les Paul Custom became Fripp’s for a song — but he’s shocked to see what a similar model fetches today

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FLEETWOOD MAC member Peter Green in a recording studio in 1968
Behind Peter Green’s life-changing acid trip: “They gave him a bad tab of acid. He was never the same person again”

By Joe Matera Published

The veteran tour chief for Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC, Pink Floyd and other rock legends recalls the night he saw everything chang for Green — plus his adventures with Mick Ronson, the Byrds and Frank Sinatra

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LEFT: Paul McCartney, fronts his next band "Wings" in May 1976 in Los Angeles, California. CENTER: David BOWIE, performing live onstage on Philly Dogs Tour, 1975. RIGHT: John LENNON, performing live onstage - last live appearance, with Elton John, 1975
David Bowie on how he almost got former Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney back together in 1974

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Bowie and the ex-Beat;es discussed forming a trio at a time when Lennon was hungering to collaborate on music for the first time in years

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LEFT: David Bowie onstage during the first night of his Serious Moonlight World Tour at the Vorst Forest Nationaal in Brussels, Belgium on 18th May 1983. RIGHT: Freddie Mercury with Queen in 1980
Brian May and John Deacon reveal what really happened when Queen met David Bowie for “Under Pressure”

By Elizabeth Swann Published

Inside the cocaine-fueled Montreux session where Bowie took control — and left Queen questioning the song's future

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English singer and songwriter David Bowie (1947 - 2016) at Union Station, Los Angeles, with model Patty Clark of Star magazine, California, March 1973.
The guitar legend who launched David Bowie and John Lennon to the top of the charts, got high with Paul McCartney and talked back to Chuck Berry 

By Andrew Daly Published

Carlos Alomar reveals the stories behind some of his wildest adventures with rock and roll royalty

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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 — and the song that became his last hit

By Gary Graff Published

Earl Slick recalls working with the artist in his final years on tracks highlighted in the new David Bowie box set, 'I Can’t Give Everything Away'

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LEFT: David Bowie onstage for his Serious Moonlight World Tour in Brussels, Belgium, May 18, 1983. RIGHT: Mick Jagger onstage at John F. Kennedy Stadium for Live Aid, Philadelphia,, July 13, 1985.
Mick Jagger on his rivalry with David Bowie — and the Ziggy Stardust–era track that was Bowie’s Rolling Stones tribute

By Phil Weller Published

The pair would eventually turn their friendly jousting into a 1985 cover of “Dancing in the Street” for Live Aid’s famine-relief efforts

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David Bowie at "The Isle of Wight Festival 2004" in Newport, UK
“Never feel safe. Go a little bit out of your depth”: David Bowie's advice to all his musician friends

By Phil Weller Published

Some artists – AC/DC, the Ramones – find their sound and lock in. David Bowie never stood still. Here's why…

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Earl Slick and David Bowie during David Bowie Gives Fans a Strong Dose of "A Reality Tour" at Special Poughkeepsie Warm Up Show For His Upcoming World Tour at The Chance Nghtclub in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.
Earl Slick on his first gig with David Bowie, filling Mick Ronson’s shoes — and why making ‘Station to Station’ was “every man for himself”

By Phil Weller Published

The guitarist is set to honor the 10th anniversary of Bowie’s passing this November, leading him to reflect on his first tenure in the band

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