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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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Guitar master Jeff Beck poses for a portrait in 1985 in Los Angeles, California.
Jeff Beck tells Alice Cooper how he almost joined Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones

By Jonathan Graham Published

Ever imagined "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Start Me Up" with Beck's signature guitar work? It almost happened

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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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Andrew Watt performs onstage at Beacon Theatre on February 04, 2022 in New York City.
"Every kid who picks up a guitar wants to be Keith Richards, right?" How Andrew Watt kicked Keef and Mick Jagger "up the ass in the studio," connected the Stones back to Muddy Waters, and recruited Paul McCartney for a punky cameo on the band's new album

By Brad Tolinski Published

Andrew Watt has made records with Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Pearl Jam, and more, but manning the boards for the Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds was, he says, "the honor of my lifetime”

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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 shot heard around the world”: How the Rolling Stones’ debut appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show launched not only them but also the Gibson Les Paul Standard

By Rod Brakes Published

The Stones' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show shocked parents, thrilled kids, and gave many people their first glimpse of “the most historically important ‘Burst” – Keith Richards’ 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard. Guitar dealer Richard Henry retraces its history

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