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Bill Gates is 'mixing up' his summer book recommendations and has also made a playlist for fans

Bill Gates remembers his friend and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen when revealing his book recommendations and summer playlist for 2023.

Fortune

Learn 7 of the greatest blues guitar licks of all time

Featuring classics by Hendrix, BB King, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Freddie King, Buddy Guy and John Lee Hooker

MusicRadar

George Lynch shows us what’s on his pedalboard

Make that pedalboards, as Mr Scary reveals his fly-in ’board and his more well-stocked, Jeff Beck-inspired offering – and reveals what pedal he can’t live without

Guitar World

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Sheldon Reynolds death: Earth, Wind & Fire and The Commodores guitarist dies aged 63

Musician also performed with the band Sun

The Independent UK

Guitar hero! Jimi Hendrix saves the universe in a new sci-fi graphic novel, authorized by his sister

Purple Haze is a sci-fi reimagining of the rock star's life

GamesRadar

That time Little Richard reprimanded Jimi Hendrix for his guitar showmanship: “Don’t you ever play your f**king guitar behind your head again!”

Graham Nash recalls seeing the rock ‘n’ roll icon dress down the guitarist post-show

Guitar World

Graham Nash recalls a furious Little Richard lambasting Jimi Hendrix after the young guitarist upstaged the rock ’n’ roll godfather

It would take something for any backing player to steal Little Richard's thunder but then this was Jimi Hendrix...

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The Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox remembers Woodstock

Billy Cox: “If you listen to The Star Spangled Banner you hear me playing the first five or six notes. Then I immediately stepped back”

Guitar World

Vito Bratta names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The virtuoso behind White Lion’s platinum rock sound pays dues to the players who showed him what to do on guitar (and what not to do), and recalls an emotional encounter with Eddie Van Halen

Guitar World

Joe Satriani: the 10 greatest instrumental tracks ever written

Guitar wiz Joe Satriani picks 10 instrumentals that have guided him on his long career through rock

Louder

Slash once partnered with Jimi Hendrix’s bandmates for a stirring tribute cover of Hey Joe in honor of the guitar great

Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox supported Slash and Steve Winwood as the supergroup paid tribute to the guitar master in scintillating style at the UK Music Hall of Fame ceremony

Guitar World

Jimi Hendrix is to battle a tyrannical intergalactic force in an official graphic novel

The graphic novel Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze will follow the legendary guitarist on a psychedelic, extremely perilous quest to the very centre of the universe

Louder

Billy Cobham: “It was testing the waters of rock and jazz!"

Jazz fusion drummer extraordinaire Billy Cobham recalls his time with Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra and beyond...

Louder

Gene Simmons: “Eddie Van Halen talked about being a fan of Eric Clapton. I’m sorry, I don’t see that. What he did was closer to classical music”

The Kiss frontman has been fretting over the guitar hero’s legacy, sharing concerns that “millennials need to know about the most important musician since Jimi Hendrix”

Guitar World

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The Eddie Van Halen I knew, by Gene Simmons

"Our millennials need to know about the most important musician since Jimi Hendrix" - Gene Simmons on the late Eddie Van Halen

Louder

Watch Jimi Hendrix hang out with The Rolling Stones backstage in New York on his last ever birthday

When The Rolling Stones played Madison Square Garden in 1969, Jimi Hendrix joined them backstage to chill out and play his guitar on what would be his final birthday

Guitar World

George Benson on the time he met Jimi Hendrix, how Peter Frampton changed the course of his career and what Paul McCartney made of his Beatles tribute

One of the all-time jazz guitar greats on upsetting guitar companies, receiving praise from Frank Sinatra, and what it was really like working with Miles Davis

Guitar World

Orianthi and Eric Johnson tackle technical issues and trade freestyle solos in searing cover of Never Make Your Move Too Soon

The two titans shared the stage at the Dallas International Guitar Festival and overcame a dodgy backline to take on the track released by B.B. King in 1978

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Eric Burdon: the hellraiser who had it all and then lost it

Founder of The Animals, party buddy of Hendrix and Morrison and hero to Springsteen, Eric Burdon is a bluesman, a rogue and a survivor, and this is his story

MusicRadar

25 great blues-rock guitar licks lesson

Play in the style of Clapton, SRV, Hendrix, Gilmour, the three Kings, John Mayer and more with our tab and audio lessons

Guitar World

A Jimi Hendrix stage-used 1968 Fender Dual Showman cabinet is headed to the auction block

Acquired by Hendrix due to his need for more onstage firepower, the cab features a pair of 15-inch JBL 130 speakers, and was most prominently used for the guitar hero's performance at the 1969 Newport Pop Festival

The Guardian - UK

Lamb’s ears, eel pie and plenty of claret: London museum showcases Handel’s love of food

The baroque composer was passionate about food and music, as celebrated at the refurbished Handel & Hendrix in London museum reopening this month

Guitar World

Jon Bon Jovi: “I was in the room with Jeff Beck when he took a guitar out of a cardboard box, with a rented amplifier and no pedals and created that sound”

The frontman was asked to name the greatest guitarist of all time and wasted no time in selecting Beck

Louder

Blues, booze and debauchery: the agonising life and death of Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield inspired Dylan to plug in, was a virtuoso singer and mouth harp player, and took black blues to white America. But beneath the surface, trouble was brewing

Guitar World

Steve Vai leads 7,968 guitarists in a world record-breaking performance of Jimi Hendrix classic Hey Joe

Fellow shred icon Michael Angelo Batio was also among the massive lineup of guitar players in Wrocław, Poland

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