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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 41 years ago this weekend
“Other bands follow the drummer. The Stones follow Keith…" Keith Richards: The Guitar Player Interview, 1983
“Other bands follow the drummer. The Stones follow Keith…" In 1983, we sat down with Keith Richards, then aged 40 (for perspective: just four years older than Taylor Swift is now) and talked guitars, songwriting and drug busts
The Stones used to labor in the studio, now they take a “bulldozer approach”
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have reflected on the band’s changing creative process as they ready their latest album, “Foreign Tongues”
“I think it sounds lousy.” Mick Jagger says he isn’t a fan of the Rolling Stones’ most celebrated album
Though the record classic is now hailed as a masterpiece, Jagger calls it one of his least-favorite albums and blames the disorder that surrounded its creation
“We haven’t got a single.” Paul McCartney recalls how the Beatles gave the Rolling Stones their first hit
McCartney says the bands’ supposed rivalry was largely invented by the press as London’s ’60s rock scene exploded.
Roger McGuinn and Keith Richards remember Gram Parsons, who laid a path for the ’70s California sound and died at 26
Despite his tumultuous lifestyle, the country-rock pioneer delivered transcendent music with the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers and his own Fallen Angels
“Keith, your guitars only have five strings!” Brian Setzer recalls the day Keith Richards handed him his Les Paul
The Stray Cats guitarist adds that he’s picked up a couple of new guitars — and they’re not Gretsches
Keith Richards had a priceless response when he caught his band watching the Fab Four
The Rolling Stones guitarist delivered a one-line reminder of who he was — and where he’d been
