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“Suddenly the sun shone and it was, ‘Wow!’”: How ELO’s Jeff Lynne created his masterpiece Mr. Blue Sky - and how a little joke at the end of the song was misheard by millions

Inside the making of a miniature pop symphony

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"While the aesthetic flourishes grab the headlines, this guitar’s mismatched specs are its secret weapon": Gibson Mary Ford Les Paul Standard Goldtop review

A Les Paul dressed up like an ES-295, Gibson's latest signature certainly has plenty of visual appeal, but can it deliver on playability and tone?

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“The response from the collecting community was incredible”: Sell-out Skip Maggiora auction raises more than $2.4 million for music and youth charities, with an O.G. ’54 Strat selling for $300,000

Lots included a stunning 1953 Fender Telecaster ($75,000), a super-rare Metallic Green '55 Strat ($143,750) and an '80s Kramer prototype that was smashed by Eddie Van Halen

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Best Holiday Gift for 2024 - Sennheiser MD 421 Kompakt Recording Microphone

Four good reasons to give the gift of great sound with the Sennheiser MD 421 Kompakt

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“I just be chillin & dey still kome 4 my head”: Did Lil Wayne just take a swipe at Kendrick Lamar’s upcoming Super Bowl success?

There’s no love lost between the pair as rap's big names continue to take sides and air their dirty laundry in musical form

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“Was not good”: Timbaland just made a beat on Rhythm Roulette and the internet hates it

“This was by far the worst episode ever," is one of the kinder comments

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The most-learned guitar and piano songs of 2024 have been revealed, and it’s good news for Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, Billie Eilish, Gracie Abrams and Gigi Perez

It turns out that The Eagles are still pretty popular, too…

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“The spring is the thing… Even better than the 1999 original!”: The Danelectro Spring King reverb is dead, long live the Spring King Junior (smaller, just as splashy)

The Spring King is reinvented as a space-saving mini pedal – but it still has that three-spring reverb tank under the hood

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“Here to make its first stage appearance in 50 years... is my original bass!”: Stolen in ’72, returned in February, Paul McCartney’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 finally makes it back to the stage for final show in Beatles icon’s tour

McCartney's triumphant finale to the Got Back 2024 Tour also featured fellow Beatle Ringo Starr on drums and a guest spot from Ronnie Wood

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“Look out!! Coming in hot! What an honour of a lifetime!!”: Martin is digging out the Brazilian rosewood for Joe Bonamassa as the blues superstar teases new holy grail signature acoustic

Martin and JoBo unveiled on a meticulous replica of his 1941 000-45 in November but might this be upstaged by a version with the "ultimate tonewood"?

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7 festive free plugins we found under the Christmas tree

We've rounded up a selection of festive freebies to save you some much-needed Christmas cash - and keep you busy while the rest of the family argues over who burned the turkey

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Music = Science and Einstein + Jazz = Genius: Stuck in a musical rut? Why not give the ‘Coltrane Circle’ a spin?

Jazz legend John Coltrane penned his famous circle in 1967 and musicians have been pondering it ever since

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“I'm as obsessed with Mary Poppins as I am with Radiohead”: Coldplay’s Chris Martin on his approach to songwriting, conversations with Paul Simon and being inspired by Chappell Roan

“Songs pop up everywhere. They wake you up, songs”

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“Proof you can fit guitar solos into perfect two-minute pop songs”: Towa Bird stars in the top five guitar albums of 2025

If you’re looking for that last-minute Christmas gift for the guitar player in your life, help is at hand!

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“They unite Lennon and McCartney, Michael Jackson and even the classic work Mars by Gustav Holst”: Exploring the joy of diminished chords

"They unite Lennon and McCartney, Michael Jackson and even the classic work Mars by Gustav Holst"

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New book Dust & Grooves Vol.2 tells the tall tale of the scam records that could make collectors a fortune

Some of today’s most in-demand rare records actually weren’t meant to be bought at all…

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Festivals are down… but gigs are through the roof as new figures show just how important live performance has become

With streams earning artists pennies, music’s cash increasingly comes from big tours with no shortage of fans willing to pay big money

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"It's fantastic, playing with my old mate": Ringo Starr joins Paul McCartney for emotional Got Back tour finale in London

The surviving Beatles reunited at the O2 Arena to mark the end of Paul's mammoth world tour

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“Why am I using this digital monstrosity when it flies in the face of all my principles that I have acquired over decades?”: Guthrie Govan makes the case for the all-digital guitar rig – it’s all about the F-word

The Aristocrats virtuoso in residence demonstrated exactly why the Axe-Fx unit and Laney FRFR has weened him off tube amps

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“This is a bass that I fell in love with at a pawnshop and used to play the first Rage record”: Ernie Ball Music Man and Tim Commerford team up for a pair of limited run signature StingRay basses

Commerford's latest EBMM signature collab features a pair of doozies, one active, one passive, both with adjustable thumb ramps, ash bodies and roasted maple necks

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“It’s better in every way. The second version took what the first could do and made it five times as useful”: Waleed on Digitakt II, Ableton Live and overcoming creative block

Waleed's 2021 debut was championed by the likes of Four Tet and Ben UFO. After wrestling with the pressure of a follow-up, he's rediscovered the joy of music-making and released an EP that's one of this year's best

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“I was running after some idea of happiness that wasn’t my own”: New documentary sheds light on the life and passing of EDM superstar Avicii

Netflix documentary Avicii – I’m Tim features unseen footage and his own narration to tell the story of his rise, retirement and untimely death at just 28

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Chappell Roan x Billie Eilish x Wham!: Why two of the biggest songs of 2024 ended up being mashed-up with a Christmas classic

It’s a (D) major coincidence

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“Jon had the laser-focus about becoming a rock star at age 19... he knew how to negotiate the business”: Session ace Tim Pierce on his blazing solo on Bon Jovi’s Runaway – and the hunger that propelled Jon Bon Jovi to superstardom

Sometimes rock history is settled by the fickle finger of fate. When Pierce was asked to help a young Jon Bon Jovi track his 1981 demoes, he ended up playing guitar on a Bon Jovi classic – a song that set its frontman on his way to the top

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“Packed with musical features to keep you jamming without missing a beat!”: Electro-Harmonix’s Pico 360+ is tiny $137 looper with 360 seconds of recording time and unlimited overdubs

A pedalboard space saver that's packed with features, the latest in EHX's Pico Series has 11 memory slots, overdub control and adjustable fade-out

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