Latest about Keith Richards
For Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and Bob Dylan, Live Aid was a case of bad vibes for a good cause
We look back at a few of the big guitar moments from the global music event, held 40 years ago on July 13
Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page played this stolen 1959 Les Paul. Now it’s turned up in the collection of a famous museum
The guitar, which appeared on the Stones' 1964 Ed Sullivan Show appearance, was stolen during the making of 1972's 'Exile on Main St.'
Keith Richards on how acoustic guitars, alternate tunings and a cassette recorder revived the Rolling Stones with a pair of classic hits
Amid the turmoil of drug busts and music missteps in 1967, Richards dug deeper into acoustic guitar and pushed the Stones in a new direction
Brian Jones, Mick Taylor or Ronnie Wood? Keith Richards says one guitarist was the wrong fit
Pete Townshend explains the correct way to do the windmill guitar strum
As the guitarist explains, the windmill is fraught with danger, including fingernail tears and hand lacerations
How Grady Martin, Nancy Sinatra and Ann-Margret helped the fuzz pedal become every guitarist's favorite effect
Between the effect's creation and its development as a guitar pedal, interest was kept alive by a trio of fuzz-loving musicians
Harvey Mandel tells how Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards ruined his chance to join the Rolling Stones
The former Canned Heat guitarist says Wood is “a really nice guy,” but believes he was far better suited for the gig
“Mick Taylor would play the top lines. Keith Richards would write most of the songs... Once, Keith said, ‘You play too f*cking loud. I can’t work with you in the room right now‘”: Andy Johns on the Rolling Stones' turbulent Exile on Main St. sessions
Though the late engineer had already worked with George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Free, Eric Clapton, and Led Zeppelin, he saw what would become the Stones' masterpiece as “the most important project” he'd ever taken on
"Five strings, three notes, two fingers and one a**hole – that's all it takes to play guitar!" Keith Richards: The complete 1992 interview
Guitar playing. Songwriting. Mick Jagger. His blues heroes. Keith Richards is 80. In 1992, we sat down with him for one of his greatest interviews…
“I didn’t want to be the flashy lead player. Whether it was Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, David Crosby or Richie Havens, what the left hand was doing was more fascinating to me than what the right hand was doing": The Paul Stanley interview
As Kiss hang up their guitars, Paul Stanley looks back on the instruments and musicians that shaped his musical personality
