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Keith Richards is an electric guitar icon, but he prefers playing acoustic – and his unplugged Rolling Stones approach is full of smart ideas

Every player can learn a few tricks from Keef's characterful acoustic style – even if his rhythmic swagger will take longer to master

Guitar World

"There wasn't too much talking about who should play what, it was a very instinctive kind of relationship": Mick Taylor on life in the Rolling Stones, Altamont and leaving the band

The Rolling Stones’ secret weapon throughout their golden period looks back on his time with the band

Louder

The Beatles ‘would not have existed’ if fab four had been forced to do National Service

Rishi Sunak says his favourite band of all time were The Beatles - but they only existed because National Service had been scrapped

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Anita Pallenberg on sex, drugs and her time with the Rolling Stones

In this interview from the archives, Chris Sullivan talks to the late model and muse about her life in swinging Sixties London

Evening Standard

“There’s always been an open door… We were the only ones that knew what it’s like to have that extreme kind of fame, so that created a bond”: 10 times the Beatles and the Rolling Stones collaborated together

The Beatles vs. the Rolling Stones? Not so much. Here’s our guide to 10 friendly – and occasionally excellent – collaborations between two legendary bands

Guitar World

“Ted Newman Jones builds beautiful guitars. He made some five-strings for Keith. He’s great”: Played by Keith Richards and Billy Gibbons, Newman guitars are some of rock’s greatest secret weapons – and a new model seeks to preserve their legacy

Used by everyone from The Rolling Stones to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell, Newman guitars have a unique place in rock history. And thanks to a new enterprise, they’re making a comeback

Guitar World

"I got my left ring finger shot off. So that was the end of my guitar career pretty much": The incomparable tales of Dr John

Late New Orleans legend Dr John on that time he drank a case of Blue Nun with Frankie Miller, and other stories

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‘I’ve been called a witch, slut, murderer’: the ultra-creative women dismissed as rock star girlfriends

Despite their artistic skill, Anita Pallenberg, Suzi Ronson and Yoko Ono were cast as mere lovers or muses. They’re now being allowed to tell their own stories – even if it’s after death

The Guardian - UK

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg review – suitably enigmatic portrait of the mercurial Stones muse

Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill’s documentary captures the sheer charisma of the actor, model and 60s rock survivor, though little of her background

The Guardian - UK

"It was like finding it on the street": The Beatles' Yesterday and five other songs that were inspired by dreams

How Keith Richards, Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift were visited by melodies

MusicRadar

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg review – rockn’roll ‘muse’ in the spotlight

Documentary tells the melancholy story of the model and actor at the centre of the 60s music industry but also weirdly peripheral to it

The Guardian - UK

“I narrowed it down to the bare essentials and found that three strings were all I needed”: 10 guitarists who played with missing strings on purpose… and the weird reasons why

Forget six strings: for some guitarists, all you need is one…

Guitar World

Cyril Davies was a grumpy, balding panel beater who "drank bourbon like a fish": He also inspired a generation of rock musicians – and has been all but airbrushed out of history

What do The Kinks, Stones and The Who all have in common? For one thing, a harmonica-playing bluesman nicknamed 'Squirrel'

Louder

Best books about music from memoirs to historical deep dives

Expand your music vocabulary

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Guitar World

“To Doc, love and prescriptions, Keith Richards”: A mahogany Telecaster used by Keith Richards throughout the Rolling Stones’ iconic Some Girls era is up for auction (without its original neck) – for $400k

Built by the Rolling Stone’s go-to guitar tech Ted Newman Jones, the custom T-style has killer provenance but has been heavily modified since its Stones days

The Guardian - UK

Keith Allen: ‘Your implication is my life’s a failure and I’d be happier had I lost my manhood’

The actor, musician and all-round subversive talks about getting his own back on critic AA Gill, his favourite football song and why he’d really like a part that involves lying down

Guitar World

“Those virtuoso guys can do anything. But sometimes it’s more fun to hit one note and see if it can mean as much. Sometimes it can mean even more”: Rich Robinson on earning AC/DC’s approval, losing guitars to a hurricane, and The Black Crowes’ return

The Robinson brothers are back in session as The Black Crowes complete their triumphant comeback. Here, Robinson gives us the guitar story behind the rock ’n’ roll album of the year

MusicRadar

Own a piece of Rolling Stones history as a Keith Richards stage-played 1972 Fender Telecaster Custom goes up for auction

And it will be joined by a battered and bruised Vox wah pedal that Jimi Hendrix used live and in the studio

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'There’s so much music to be discovered simply by retuning your guitar': Try these 9 alternate guitar tunings to inspire your playing today – including the saddest tuning of all time

Open the door to new creative possibilities with these varied tunings

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Magnolia Pictures Releases Trailer For 'Catching Fire: Anita Pallenberg Story'

Explore the captivating life of Anita Pallenberg, muse to the Rolling Stones, in the documentary 'Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg.' Premiering...

Guitar World

“Is it just me, or is that Stone Gossard and/or Mike McCready doing The Gojira Pick Scrape™?” March 2024 Guitar World editors’ picks

From indie folk, full-throttle blues rock and flamenco-meets-fusion to the guitar crossover episode you never knew you needed – here are our standout guitar tracks from the past 30 days

Louder

"I've been touring for the money": Pete Townshend opens up as he considers one final tour world from The Who before they "crawl off to die"

Pete Townshend also has things to say about Keith Richards and AC/DC

Louder

“He was one of the most crucial figures of the ’60s. Much of the underground was his invention”: the forgotten story of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, the man who invented psychedelic London

He helped launch Pink Floyd’s career and got arrested with the Rolling Stones – John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins was the King Of The 1960s Underground

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Steve! (martin): release date, trailer and everything we know about the Steve Martin documentary

Find out what you need to know about Steve Martin then and now in the documentary appropriately titled Steve! (martin): a documentary in 2 pieces.

Louder

"I miss him and his dog": Keith Richards has recorded a cover of Lou Reed's classic I'm Waiting For My Man

Watch the video for Keith Richards' cover of I'm Waiting For My Man, taken from the upcoming album The Power Of The Heart: A Tribute To Lou Reed

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