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Jimi Hendrix's London: an interactive map

Hotels, hangouts, crash pads, recording studios, sweaty gigs, swanky nightclubs… and where it all ended in tragedy: Jimi Hendrix was here

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32 of the greatest onstage moments in the entire history of the rock guitar

Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable

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“When Keith and I are together, we talk through our guitars. We never say, ‘You do this and I’ll do that.’ We weave”: How Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood made the Rolling Stones what they are today

The story of three different eras and three different players, all bound by the ability to bob and weave through Keith Richards' unforgettable riffs and drive the Stones ever-forward

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Strymon UltraViolet Vintage Vibe Pedal review

Purple reign?

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“I don’t mean to be arrogant, but we had the goods. We knew what we were doing”: how Bad Company hit the bullseye with their classic second album Straight Shooter

Bad Company’s second album, Straight Shooter, was the one that sealed their superstardom

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“I loved Hendrix – he was my first guitar hero... But seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan was transcendent. He made me understand Hendrix better”: Mike McCready says SRV helped him make sense of this Hendrix technique

“When he [Vaughan] did Voodoo Child, it was so bad-ass," McCready says. “He changed how I wanted to play, and if you listen to Even Flow, you can hear me trying to emulate his stuff”

Guitar World

"I felt a rage towards him that has taken decades to subside": The mysterious case of the fake Fleetwood Mac

Critically acclaimed and loved by their contemporaries, Stretch were perhaps doomed from the start by their involvement in one of the strangest chapters in music history

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Stevie Ray Vaughan virtually defined the art of the Texas shuffle – learn the playing style that shaped the sound of blues to come

The late, great Stratocaster master’s techniques will add some Texas heat to your blues playing, guaranteed

Guitar World

“The guitar riff is dying out”: New survey suggests the ‘majority’ of music fans believe the riff is on its way out

A new research piece has concluded the humble riff may be on its deathbed – and identified Prince's Purple Rain as the second greatest riff of all time

Guitar World

Is Prince's Purple Rain really the second-greatest guitar riff of all time? A new survey says 'yes'

And Seven Nation Army is the only riff recorded after the '80s to make the top 20

MusicRadar

Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ Voted Best Guitar Riff Of All Time

Poll of music fans reveals iconic rock classics and modern hits in the top rankings.

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"There were guitar players weeping, they had to mop the floor up. He was piling it on, solo after solo" – how Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton changed guitar forever

"When Jimi played with Cream... he walked offstage with this smirk; he knew exactly what he was doing" – we look back at the seismic impact of Clapton and Hendrix on the British guitar scene

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“Gene looked like a transvestite, Paul looked like some whore and Ace looked like Shirley Maclaine”: the outrageous story of Kiss’s first 12 months

Kiss’s farewell tour is fast approaching its end – but this is how it all started, way back in 1973

Metal Hammer

10 cover versions that are way more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)

The Beatles, Bowie, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder have all seen covers of their songs become more popular than the original version

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"I've lived, I really have. I've done it all. I love the fact that I make people happy": The life and times of rock's most outrageous star, Freddie Mercury

How a shy kid from Zanzibar helped propel Queen to superstardom

Digital Camera World

A kangaroo channeling Jimi Hendrix wins Comedy Wildlife Photography Award 2023

Beating over 5,000 images, Jason Moore's photo Air Guitar Roo proves that sometimes the unexpected shot is the best

Guitar World

Gigging guitarists spend the majority of time playing rhythm, not lead – so here are 21 ways to improve your rhythm guitar chops

Chords, picking, strumming, riffs, single-note accompaniments, timing: you can never practice rhythm playing enough, and this boot camp will hone your skills in all sorts of styles

Guitar World

“I got my Telecaster in 2013 and it’s never been cleaned. It’s covered with blood. I like the idea of seeing the work I’ve done”: He’s guitarist for Iceland’s premier power trio The Vintage Caravan – and Óskar Logi Ágústsson’s rig lives up to the name

Inspired to pick up the guitar by School of Rock, classic rock acolyte Ágústsson has been leading The Vintage Caravan since he was 12 years old. He explains what makes fans liken his playing to Alvin Lee, how he wrings his tone from a collection of extremely loud vintage Marshalls…

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"The whole vibe of Ace Frehley was really special to me. I was so small, and Ace was this larger-than-life figure… I didn't even think he was a real person": John 5 names the guitarists who shaped his sound

From shred titans to riff-masters to an obscure, blazing country picker he thinks every guitarist should listen to, the Mötley Crüe man names the players who forged his virtuosic, hard-charging sound

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‘Fela Kuti was always in his pants’: legendary music photographer Val Wilmer’s greatest shoots

She ate fried chicken with BB King, gave Jimi Hendrix a lift home from a gig and accidentally worked for MI6. The pioneer recalls her favourite subjects – and the ones like Miles Davis she’d rather forget

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“If I ended up in jail, I knew I wouldn’t be able to play guitar”: the secret history of Jimi Hendrix’s pre-fame years

Although I don’t eat every day, everything’s going all right for me. It could be worse than this

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"Oh God, it was so embarrassing!" Why watching their support act Jimi Hendrix get booed off stage every night was mortifying for The Monkees

In 1967, The Monkees took the Jimi Hendrix Experience on tour as their support act. Their fans were not ready

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“We set up outside Frank Zappa’s bedroom door and played so loud the pictures on the wall ended up crooked. I thought he’d shoot us”: the forgotten psychedelic beginnings of Alice Cooper

How five psychedelic freaks from Detroit became rock’n’roll’s first great bogeymen – this is the story of Alice Cooper’s early years

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"Sometimes Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend would go and buy us breakfast because we had no money": what happened when Bryan Adams interviewed Rod Stewart

Sir Rod Stewart tells Bryan Adams about his music, being on tour, trying to get paid when he was in the Jeff Beck Group, his model-railway passion, being “one of the lucky ones”, and more

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"The sheer firepower of the Jimi Hendrix Experience is palpable throughout." The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Live At The Hollywood Bowl, August 18, 1967

An early onslaught in the US finds The Jimi Hendrix Experience establishing their credentials on Hollywood Bowl August 67

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