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‘My dog hates my singing’: Beverley Knight’s honest playlist

She is an unabashed karaoke show-off and thinks a certain Spice Girls hit absolutely rocks, but which diminutive pop sexpot does the soul diva want played at her funeral?

The Guardian - UK

“When we did Top Of The Pops we were introduced as being avant-garde. It would have been closer to call us ‘aven’t-a-clue!” Fired from his own band Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull co-founder Mick Abrahams could only regret the wasted potential

Unable to perform towards the end of his life, the singer and guitarist maintained a philosophical viewpoint, and was proud of making “good, honest music without prejudice”

Louder

Original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams dead at 82

Mick Abrahams played on Jethro Tull’s first album, This Was, before launching Blodwyn Pig

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“He will go down as one of the greatest rock drummers of all time. I can bring him a bass riff in seven-and-a-half and he’ll be right on it”: Justin Chancellor explains how bass fits into Tool’s challenging brand of prog

With their uncompromising blend of formidable time signatures and distorted guitar riffs, Tool are a band quite unlike any other

Guitar World

“I had letters threatening me with death for getting Bert Jansch to play through an amp”: The life and wild times of Danny Thompson, the legend of upright bass who “brought greatness to everything he played”

The fabled upright acoustic bassist leaves us with a thousand tales of misadventure and an extraordinary body of music that weaves through the rock ’n’ roll era

Guitar World

“A utopia of modeled guitar tones that will suit pretty much any guitarist out there”: Universal Audio Paradise Guitar Studio review

Universal Audio's debut multi-amp plugin offers effortless, world-class sound with some of the most iconic amps of all time

Guitar World

“Usually there would be a hero who destroys the asteroid. I didn’t want that. I wanted to end humanity!” Self-confessed egomaniac counts the ways of our deaths on his first solo release in 13 years

Whether you want to spend your last five months surrounded by family, living in denial or taking part in a shaggathon, there’s a song for you on this apocalyptic concept album

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Taylor Swift Has Opened Up About Her Break Ups With Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy in a Rare Statement

Marie Claire

“We live in an age where John Mayer’s famed guitar tones can now be accessed by anyone with a laptop”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including a watershed plugin that the internet can’t stop talking about

Who needs a Dumble when you have Archetype: John Mayer X?

Guitar World

“Once people were talking about us as the No.1 band in the world, some people took that as the sign that they could do anything they wanted”: The apocalyptic 1969 hit that marked the beginning of the end for one of America’s greatest rock’n’roll bands

John Fogerty’s massive hit inadvertently captured the chaos and turbulence of late 60s America

Louder

“I opened my guitar case and nearly fainted because I thought there was a human hand in there. It turned out, it was half a pig’s head”: Girlschool look back on their wild life with Mötorhead

Singer/guitarist Kim McAuliffe reflects on recording the vaunted St Valentine’s Day Massacre EP and what it was like touring with rock’n’roll’s craziest band

Metal Hammer

Pop icon secures UK Christmas No 1 with ‘genuine festive banger’

Kylie Minogue has become the first woman to achieve number one singles across four decades

The Independent UK

$22,400 for a Zakk Wylde Epiphone Les Paul? $32,000 for a Squier Bullet Strat!? Joe Walsh gear auction raises huge sums for charity – and raises eyebrows as unexpected guitars attract big money bids

Who here remembers the time circa 2008 when Walsh was playing an EMG-equipped Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom live onstage with the Eagles?

Guitar World

“Gear is a nightmare. When you play every night, the failure rate goes through the roof”: Award-winning UK indie stars English Teacher on the dangers of self-relic'ing, and why they love Fender offsets “for the same reason any alternative band does”

Guitarist Lewis Whiting and bassist Nicholas Eden celebrate their new Fenders, explain how they transform studio songs to live performances, and reveal how they react when things go wrong

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“Let’s be clear: performing on my solo records does not equal ownership, authorship, or legacy”: Yngwie Malmsteen hits back at singers who features on his records

Malmsteen is claiming that certain singers are trying to capitalize on his brand and claim song ownership

Guitar World

“The engineer switched between them without my knowing. It fooled me”: John Mayer explains what finally convinced him that modeling tech was up to scratch in newly shared signature plugin test footage

Mayer teamed up with Neural DSP for an Archetype plugin that modeled his prized guitar gear in digital form

Metal Hammer

"I was 21 years old. I don’t think it matters how old you are – there’s no way to be prepared for it." The story of the one simple but devastating question that led to Evanescence writing their biggest hit

It was a simple conversation with her future husband that helped Amy Lee write the anthem of a generation

International Business Times UK

Eras Tour Docuseries: Taylor Swift Reveals Exes Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy Never Viewed Her as a 'Person'

Taylor Swift reveals how dating men during the start of the Eras Tour, who were Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy, left her feeling unseen as a person and feeling like a conglomerate.

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“Part of my soul is on stage with my favorite band every single night”: Fender Masterbuilder on what it’s like to watch his ultimate guitar hero play the Strat he made for him

Andy Hicks built Dave Murray a Custom Shop Strat for tour – and it’s since become his Number One guitar

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"I landed up in the hospital with 11 staples in my head. It was a wild experience and pretty much an awakening for myself to pull my life together." How one of nu metal's biggest bands dropped the raps and wrote a power ballad instead

At a time when they could have been left behind, Papa Roach wrote a song that set them on a completely different course

The Guardian - UK

The 50 best albums of 2025: No 1 – Rosalía: Lux

On her monumental, maximalist opus, the dazzlingly audacious Spanish singer balanced pop and classical, experimentation and accessibility

Guitar World

“They called the police and said, ‘This is Mark Tremonti’s guitar’”: Mark Tremonti once had one of his earliest PRS guitars stolen – but a fan bought it back for him from a Guitar Center parking lot

The gorgeous single-cut was thought to be lost forever, until one eagle-eyed fan saved the day

MusicRadar

“People ask that question so much because he has such an identifiable sound… It's literally just his voice”: The 'secret sauce' that creates Dijon’s distinctive vocal sound isn't what you thought it was

"What you're hearing - the 'processing' - you're hearing bleed," says his collaborator Tommy King. "You're literally hearing the entire song coming through"

Guitar World

“I bought my first Höfner bass in the ’60s. I have loved it ever since”: Paul McCartney pays tribute to Höfner as the legendary German brand’s future hangs in the balance

Having played a Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass since 1961, the Beatles icon is saddened to learn of the German brand's plight

Guitar World

“There’s a couple guys in the band that were really glad for me to be gone”: Steve Morse opens up on his departure from Deep Purple – and why it was time for him to go

Morse left the band in 2022 to care for his late wife, who was battling cancer

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