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Rod Stewart's surprising 'career birthplace' given tribute ahead of Glastonbury legends slot

Sir Rod Stewart’s career took off 61 years ago at a quiet south west London train station

Evening Standard

“Whatever your opinion is about some music museums, I believe it’s an honor to be recognized”: Wrecking Crew director responds to Carol Kaye’s criticisms of the film – and of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The esteemed session player recently rejected an invitation to her induction ceremony

Guitar World

“We can see this dividing opinion more than almost any guitar we’ve reviewed”: Atkin JH3001 review

What happens when charmingly bonkers rockstar Justin Hawkins is given free rein to design his own guitar? Guess what? He comes up with something charmingly bonkers!

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“He looked like a ripper to me. He didn’t hesitate to climb over the barricade”: Tyler Bryant invites a fan onstage and shreds the roof off after a mighty mid-song guitar transfer

The guitarist made a 300-mile journey to the show and ended the night on stage with his hero

Guitar World

U2 guitarist The Edge becomes Irish citizen in ‘long-overdue move’

Musician said the step was ‘long overdue’

The Independent UK

“We feel very fortunate to have known, loved and worked with him”: Patrick Walden, Babyshambles guitarist and Pete Doherty collaborator, dies aged 46

He helped re-launch Pete Doherty’s post-Libertines career, and co-wrote a string of hits on their debut album

Guitar World

“It’s scary putting your voice on something when people are attached to hearing someone else. There will be people who won’t come with us – that’s totally fair”: Black Country, New Road battled steep odds to make Forever Howlong

Line-up changes, cancelled tours, shyness, outside commitments left the Canterbury crew with no option but to gamble on their future. Their third studio album proves they won

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“The biggest pain in all guitar playing”: Jason Isbell names the hardest thing for beginners to learn on guitar – and how mastering it leveled up his own playing

Isbell sympathizes with newbie players struggling with them, but discusses why they’re a vital songwriting tool

Guitar World

Scottish Album of the Year awards to be held outwith central belt for first time

The Scottish Album of the Year (Say) Award ceremony is set to be held outwith the central belt for the first time in the award's 14-year history

The National (Scotland)

“Our Mick has passed, my heart just hit the ground”: Mick Ralphs, guitarist for Mott The Hoople and Bad Company, has died aged 81

He played on All The Young Dudes and other rock classics

MusicRadar

“It was not necessarily the record that in my mind I had planned on, but that’s the way creativity works”: Springsteen explains why he “wasn’t happy” with Born In The USA

Plus he confirms a new album of original material is already in the can

MusicRadar

"We decided to stream on Saturdays, have a drink and pretend we were playing a gig": Six things you need to know about When Rivers Meet

One of When Rivers Meet's albums was a chart first and the following hit the Top 5, but they "still think we’re a little band"

Louder

"That's evil, beyond any concept I can relate to": John Lydon on the haters who buy tickets just to abuse him

PiL frontman and former Sex Pistol John Lydon on losing loved ones, living near the California fires, spoken-word gigs and underpants

Louder

“We both understood from the beginning that this was a journey into long-form music. It’s time for this kind of music again. It elevates you”: How Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt made Invention Of Knowledge

The former Yes vocalist and the Flower Kings leader spent two years creating and fine-tuning a record designed to be an in-depth experience – and surprised even themselves

Louder

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The Independent UK

Gloria Estefan: ‘My abuser told me he’d kill my mother if I told anyone’

INTERVIEW: The Cuban-American superstar talks to Fiona Sturges about her childhood abuser and her father’s disappearance, the ‘inhumanity’ of Trump’s America, and why her new album is her masterpiece... plus why she’s catching up on ‘Stranger Things’

International Business Times UK

Dolly Parton Net Worth, Age: Las Vegas Tour Dates Announced After Years Of Not Touring

Dolly Parton, 79, is launching a Las Vegas residency in December after decades off tour, with fans eager to see the music icon whose net worth nears £500 million.

The Independent UK

Barbra Streisand finds 'The Secret of Life' on her new duets album with Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney

For her new duets album “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2,” Barbra Streisand works with legends Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and James Taylor, current hitmakers Hozier and Sam Smith and relative newcomers like Laufey

The Independent UK

Music fans urged to be wary of last-minute Glastonbury and Oasis ‘offers’

Some £1.6 million was reported lost to ticket fraud last year, according to figures from Action Fraud.

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The Independent UK

Mick Ralphs, founding member of Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, dies at 81

Mick Ralphs, singer, songwriter guitarist and founding member of the classic British rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died

The Independent UK

Mick Ralphs death: Bad Company and Mott the Hoople guitarist dies aged 81

The guitarist famously played on the David Bowie-produced single ‘All the Young Dudes’

Louder

Mott The Hoople and Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs dead at 81

Mick Ralphs' death has been confirmed in a statement from Bad Company

Guitar World

“An amazing and versatile guitarist who had the greatest sense of humor”: Mick Ralphs, guitarist and co-founder of Mott The Hoople and Bad Company, has died at 81

Ralphs' bandmate, Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers, led tributes to the guitar great

Evening Standard

Bad Company’s Mick Ralphs dies aged 81

A statement on the band’s official website announced the news.

Evening Standard

U2 guitarist The Edge hails ‘monumental day’ as he becomes Irish citizen

David Howell Evans, known as The Edge, was born in England but lived in Ireland since the age of one.

The Guardian - UK

U2 guitarist The Edge becomes Irish citizen – after 62 years in the country

English-born David Evans, 63, is conferred with ‘long overdue’ Irish citizenship

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