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“I thought I’d make the notes count, like Jeff Beck. It doesn’t sound anything like Jeff, but that was the intention going in!” Phil Collen on how – by accident and design – Def Leppard reinvented rock guitar on classic album Pyromania

Pyromania is 40 years young this year is still fresh as a daisy. Collen explains how tones, solos, Mutt Lange and the art of recording one string at a time forged a pivotal moment in rock

Guitar World

The 5 foolproof ways to start a guitar solo

First impressions count – especially with solos!

MusicRadar

"The best frontman I ever saw. Nobody else came close": The day David Lee Roth turned in the performance of a lifetime

With a heavyweight line-up including Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe and more, Monsters Of Rock 1984 is still revered in festival folklore

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Judas Priest’s Rob Halford unknowingly gatecrashed AC/DC’s compound at Power Trip festival: “I look around and there’s Brian, sitting on a couch having a cigarette.”

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford learned there are some spots even a Metal God isn’t allowed in at last year’s Power Trip festival

Metal Hammer

"I went out expecting to see Kiss at Hammersmith Odeon and instead spent the evening in a pub with Bon Scott and Angus Young": An AC/DC story

When AC/DC headed off on their Lock Up Your Daughters Tour in the summer of 1976, a future Classic Rock writer was there every step of the way

Metal Hammer

“I know my limitations, but at the same time I’m really pushing myself to be a better guitar player”: Billie Joe Armstrong on ripping solos like Angus Young – and what Green Day have in common with Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong reveals the origin story behind Saviors, the punk superheroes’ first new album in four years, and looks back on the making of 1994’s Dookie

Guitar World

“I loved Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads. Then something happened where it was like you had to be in the guitar Olympics”: Billie Joe Armstrong explains why he rekindled his relationship with the guitar solo on Green Day’s newest album

Saviors might be the band’s most solo-heavy record to date – a result of Armstrong re-embracing lead playing and, as he tells Guitar World, putting “a spotlight on a little bit more of what I’m capable of”

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AC/DC 2024 world tour: dates, venues, and how to get tickets

It will be the Australian rock legends’ first tour in Europe for eight years — and they are coming to London

Evening Standard

AC/DC announce new bass player “to carry the torch for Cliff” ahead of long-awaited Power Up tour

Nearly four years after its release, the band are finally hitting the road in support of 2020’s Power Up album, with a new bassist lined up to replace Cliff Williams

Guitar World

AC/DC announce 21-date Power Up tour - and a new bass player

AC/DC's long-awaited return to the road has finally been confirmed

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"I'm the flash in the middle": All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness

Scott’s AC/DC legacy amounts to six years, six studio albums and 57 tracks. Here we rank every one that the great man recorded with the band, from high-voltage classics to obscure B-sides and everlasting anthems

Louder

In the early 80s Australia's biggest and most dangerous band, The Angels, had the world at their feet. But their meteoric rise and tragic fall is a tale littered with chaos, controversy and death

Discovered by AC/DC, The Angels were cited as an influence by acts as diverse as Guns N’ Roses, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Great White

Louder

“It was a huge risk – to this day I’m wondering if I pulled it off or not. But it was how I felt inside. I didn’t want picture-perfect solos”: Kirk Hammett reflects on his all-improv lead approach – and explains why he doesn’t sweat onstage mistakes

Kirk Hammett looks back on a landmark year in Metallica, reveals how Joe Bonamassa helped him snag one of the rarest Les Pauls ever made, and explains what caused him to mess up the intro to Nothing Else Matters – and why it doesn’t matter

Guitar World

“People think his playing is all about the big riffs, but I always loved his jazzy playing – listen to Planet Caravan. You can hear a lot of passing tones”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt says there’s way more to Tony Iommi’s guitar style than riffs alone

The Swedish progressive metal icon pays homage to the dark lord of rock

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"A baptism of fire, fuelled by youthful naivety, stubbornness and folly:" What it was like to witness AC/DC in Australia in 1975... as a 10-year-old

A first-hand account of an early AC/DC show at the Bondi Lifesaver Club in Sydney, Australia

MusicRadar

Do guitar solos matter? Kirk Hammett says non-musicians won’t remember your solos – but “they are gonna helluva remember a great melody and they’re really gonna remember a great song”

As Metallica's lead guitarist, Hammett has written and performed some of metal's most iconic guitar solos but maintains that the majority of people will forget them

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"I really didn’t know what I was doing": Watch horror icon Stephen King's awkward fanboy interview with AC/DC

In 1986, a coked-up Stephen King directed his first feature film, Maximum Overdrive - then engaged in a goofy trans-Atlantic interview with AC/DC, who provided the soundtrack

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AC/DC tour speculation sparked by accidental reveal of stadium concert

‘Highway to Hell’ rock band played their first show in seven years in California last month

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A German politician just leaked news of the first confirmed AC/DC show in Europe in eight years, sparking hopes of a 2024 tour

It looks like AC/DC are coming back to Europe next summer for the first time since 2016

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Campaign targets AC/DC's Thunderstruck for UK Christmas Number One

Fans have launched a campaign to get AC/DC classic Thunderstruck to the top of the UK singles chart this Christmas

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AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd selling off rare memorabilia in honour of friend who is dying of cancer

Phil Rudd is selling equipment and memorabilia from throughout AC/DC's long career

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Gibson refreshes the SG with six bold new finishes as Angus Young’s favourite double-cut joins the Custom Color range

The SG Standard and its '61 counterpart are now available in Classic White, TV Yellow, Silver Mist, Translucent Teal, Pelham Blue Burst and Cardinal Red Burst

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That time Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall Of Fame and Ozzy mooned the audience because he didn't think they were rocking hard enough

How Bill Ward's final performance with Black Sabbath was overshadowed by Ozzy Osbourne's buttocks

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Hell's Bells, beer and an unexpected trombone: this rare footage of AC/DC backstage in 1983 is an absolute delight

Witness the quiet calm before the AC/DC storm

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"That kind of bare-bones grit they had in the early days was replaced with this driving sonic overload": Why I ❤️ AC/DC's Back In Black, by Kiss's Paul Stanley

Kiss legend Paul Stanley has a theory about what makes great bands great

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