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LEFT: Bob Dylan at Live Aid during Live Aid Concert - July 13, 1985 at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. ()CENTER: Pete Townshend of The Who performs on stage at Live Aid in Wembley Stadium on July 13th, 1985 in London, United Kingdom. RIGHT: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin performs at Live Aid at Veteran's Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1985.
For Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and Bob Dylan, Live Aid was a case of bad vibes for a good cause

By Gary Graff Published

We look back at a few of the big guitar moments from the global music event, held 40 years ago on July 13

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English guitarist Keith Richards of rock group The Rolling Stones plays a Gibson Les Paul guitar with Bigsby Vibrato on the set of the ABC Television pop music television show Thank Your Lucky Stars at Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, England on 21st March 1965. The band would play four songs on the show, The Last Time, Play With Fire, Off The Hook and Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, which would be broadcast on 27th March.
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

By Christopher Scapelliti Last updated

The guitar, which appeared on the Stones' 1964 Ed Sullivan Show appearance, was stolen during the making of 1972's 'Exile on Main St.'

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1964: Guitarist Keith Richards of the rock band "the Rolling Stones" poses for a portrait with an acoustic guitar and two men in the background in 1964.
Keith Richards on how acoustic guitars, alternate tunings and a cassette recorder revived the Rolling Stones with a pair of classic hits

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

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

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Rolling Stones Keith Richards getting interviewed on overseas beach, unknown, 1986.
Brian Jones, Mick Taylor or Ronnie Wood? Keith Richards says one guitarist was the wrong fit

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

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Pete Townshend performing live onstage, in 2009, playing Fender Stratocaster guitar, doing 'windmill' arm
Pete Townshend explains the correct way to do the windmill guitar strum

By Christopher Scapelliti Last updated

As the guitarist explains, the windmill is fraught with danger, including fingernail tears and hand lacerations

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LEFT: Ronnie Wood performs with the Rolling Stones at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on November 18, 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. RIGHT: Harvey Mandel onstage at the Chicago Blues Festival, 2003
Harvey Mandel tells how Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards ruined his chance to join the Rolling Stones

By Phil Weller Published

The former Canned Heat guitarist says Wood is “a really nice guy,” but believes he was far better suited for the gig

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The Rolling Stones, pictured in 1971
“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

By Matt Blackett Published

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

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Keith Richards and The Expensive Winos perform onstage at WTTW TV studios for a production of Center Stage in Chicago, Illinois, USA on December 28, 1992. (Photo by Stacia Timonere/Getty Images)
"Five strings, three notes, two fingers and one a**hole – that's all it takes to play guitar!" Keith Richards: The complete 1992 interview

By Jas Obrecht Published

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…

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Paul Stanley with his cracked mirror Ibanez Iceman guitar
“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

By Ken Sharp Published

As Kiss hang up their guitars, Paul Stanley looks back on the instruments and musicians that shaped his musical personality

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Rolling Stones' Keith Richards
“It’s the sound of the Stones: a five-string with a six-string on top. Guitars are amazing things – you can make an orchestra out of them…” Keith Richards on life without Charlie, The Beatles and the Stones, and new album Hackney Diamonds

By Brad Tolinski Published

In an exclusive interview, Keith Richards talks about the magic of the new album Hackney Diamonds, and why losing a string created a whole new sound for the Rolling Stones

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