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“I was just too frightened – it was too big a moment with everyone looking at the guitar player. I couldn’t do it”: Paul McCartney was meant to be the Beatles’ lead guitarist – then stage fright led him to George Harrison

McCartney explains how Harrison became the band’s primary soloist in this exclusive extract from The Beatles Anthology

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“I said, ‘If you let me borrow one for tonight, I promise I’ll come back.’ I didn’t go back until 5 or 6 years later”: The Rolling Stones legend who stole his first guitar

Before he became rock royalty, Ronnie Wood couldn’t afford the Fender Jazz Bass that he needed to gig

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“We were told a musician would be coming, but we didn't know who. Then the door opened and Ed Sheeran appeared”: Ed Sheeran donates Lowden acoustics to UK school following surprise visit

The multi-Grammy winner visited a school in Belfast to support the musical education of its students

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“I was almost throwing down a challenge with some of those basslines: play me if you can!” John Paul Jones’ best Led Zeppelin basslines – including an eight-string classic

A choirmaster, organist and expert in many archaic music styles, John Paul Jones also happened to play bass guitar in the biggest heavy rock band there has ever been

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“There are people who bought my signature Jaguar because of its reputation – they don't have to be a fan of my music”: Johnny Marr on reinventing the Fender Jaguar (again), the “biggest reunion of all time” and why Nile Rodgers deserves more credit

Marr is one of guitar's most prolific collaborators, having played with The Smiths, The Pretenders, Modest Mouse, The Cribs, The The, and even Hans Zimmer – now, he’s pushing the limits of the Fender Jaguar’s design, all while keeping both eyes firmly on the evolution of the guitar world and…

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“I made a critical mistake 35 years ago, and I try to walk away from it, but I end up coming back”: Why George Lynch is back with his band

Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in. Or something like that, as new album Dancing with the Devil finds the former Dokken alpha-shredder chasing lightning in bottle

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“I moved over to Fender for a couple of years, learning a lot of history there – but also how I didn’t want to make aguitar”: How John Suhr built one of guitar’s hottest boutique brands

John Suhr knows a thing or two about tone. Hey, the guy oversaw repairs at Rudy’s Music in NYC, modded amps with Bob Bradshaw, became a Senior Master Builder and launched his own brand

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“I said, ‘We aren’t getting paid properly. I’m going back to New York.’ Duane Allman said, ‘I’m gonna go home and start a band with my brother’”: Jerry Jemmott played with B.B. King and George Benson – but two car accidents influenced him the most

A childhood head injury meant the session icon had to find his own way of making music. But after working with King, Aretha Franklin, Benson, Roberta Flack, and many others, he’s proud to be a poster boy for not knowing what he’s doing

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“Aim to clone the style of the high-end UK Custom Shop models… To be honest, we’re struggling to find any negatives”: PJD Origin Series Carey Pro and St John Pro review

Known for its finely made production-led UK builds, PJD Guitars is now aiming for the mainstream with a range of Indonesian-made solidbodies and its lowest price points yet

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“At one stage it sounded like Guns N’ Roses’ November Rain. It was so pompous and bombastic – just the worst”: It was a “nightmare” to record and reduced Thom Yorke to tears – but this difficult Radiohead song went on to be a viral smash

Inspired by seeing Jeff Buckley in concert, Thom Yorke wrote this stunning power ballad of sorts while under pressure to produce a follow-up to the band's breakthrough hit, Creep. In the end, it was a huge mixing mistake that helped make it a classic, and a hit – 30 years…

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“There isn't a person on Earth – if I put you in a blindfold – who could hear the difference between those two things”: Phish's Trey Anastasio on why he ditched his vintage pedals in favor of digital modelers

Anastasio is the owner of some pretty rare vintage pedals but nowadays he prefers using his Line 6 multi-effects

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“If you’re heading off on holiday any time soon and want a guitar-shaped companion with a good pedigree, look no further”: Furch Pioneer-ER A review

The latest travel guitar from the renowned Czech builder may look small, but it packs a punch and benefits from some revolutionary new technology

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“Jacob Collier’s 5-string guitar revolution is here to stay”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – and the new launches you might have missed

Johnny Marr's latest reinvention of the Fender Jaguar, another pedal inspired by Mk.gee's oddball rig choices, the ultimate evolution of the Tube Screamer and so much more...

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“Taking Klons on the road isn’t fun. It is an easy nick”: Jared James Nichols was gifted a Klon Centaur by Joe Bonamassa – here’s how he kept it safe on the road

Nichols went from nearly having his borrowed Klon stolen to being given one of his own by the blues guitar icon

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“A call for peace, justice, and unity in a divided world”: Eric Bibb pays tribute to blues pioneer Muddy Waters in new single – taken from upcoming album with John Mayer and Paul McCartney collaborator

The second single from Bibb's forthcoming album is named after Muddy Waters, and he and guitarist Robbie McIntosh put on a rootsy blues masterclass atop an irresistible groove

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“After 50-plus years of an incredible journey with Deep Purple, Whitesnake, and Jimmy Page, it's time for me to hang up my platform shoes”: David Coverdale announces his retirement

After an iconic career, the Whitesnake singer is calling it a day

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The Tube Screamer is one of the most iconic overdrives ever. It’s just been reinvented by the pedal pioneer who first developed it

The TWA Source Code is a "next-gen" TS-style drive that looks to level up the original design

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“We were afraid the record company was going to chuck us, so I started playing these chords. It all came about pretty quickly – like magic”: Dave Davies on the Kinks’ argumentative energy, mixed feelings on Van Halen, and Jeff Beck, the “loose cannon”

One of the O.G. progenitors of rock 'n' roll sits in with us to discuss the vital spark that lit the fire for a new generation – the sound, the fury, the friction, and the legacy

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“These are going to be pricey guitars, but they’re gonna be a lot less than an original pre-War D-45”: Martin is making replicas of the finest acoustic guitars it’s ever made – at $150,000 apiece

Martin has launched Project 91, a series of acoustics based on individual classic pieces from its archive, meticulously recreated and built to the original spec – and it has unveiled the first four models in the run

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“You have all these modern players like Tim Henson playing crazy stuff that sounds incredible, though they very rarely choose to bend anything”: Wolfgang Van Halen on what sets his favorite contemporary metal guitar hero apart from his peers

Wolfgang has praised this player's ability to bridge the generational and genre divide

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“We built 19 different models. He more or less changed what we were doing”: EMG founder on why this Metallica guitarist’s pickup set was the most challenging he’s ever made

The band first started working with the pickup builder before they scored their first record deal

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“People talk a lot of poo about my tone. But it’s what I love and have loved since I was a kid”: Kiki Wong’s go-to amp at home is a budget combo everyone loves to hate

The cheap modelling amp is mocked by many, but it indirectly helped Wong get the biggest gig of her career

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“I’ll just grab ahold of the G string, pinch it and then bend it way up. You’re doing it to get a laugh out of the guys”: Big Wreck’s Ian Thornley on channeling Eric Johnson and Steve Morse – and why he’s called a guitar the “Jungle Gym”

Cutting lose on his Suhr electrics, Ian Thornley is officially enjoying himself on the Canadian rockers latest LP, The Rest of the Story. He discusses his intro to metal, pinch harmonics, and wrestling with producers

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“Initially, Gary was very frosty. I said, ‘On this track, you used the “Greeny” Les Paul, didn’t you?’ And his eyes lit up”: Inside the final Gary Moore gear auction – from the amps behind his sound to the red Strat that unleashed his blues power

With the last of Moore’s guitars going under the hammer, we join Claire Tole-Moir of Bonhams and Neville Marten, former Guitarist editor and friend to Gary, to examine his extraordinary collection

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“The guitar he used to teach a young Keith Richards”: Brian Jones' Harmony Stratotone from the Rolling Stones' early years is heading to auction

The guitar was featured in the band's earliest demos, gigs, and even their first-ever single, a cover of Chuck Berry’s Come On – and is now expected to fetch $400,000

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