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“She said, ‘Looks like you found it on a beach. But then it also looks like it came from outer space’”: Ken Parker, visionary luthier behind the Parker Fly, has died, aged 73

Parker was one of guitar designs great radicals, whose legendary electric, the Parker Fly, became a '90s classic, famously played by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Adrian Belew, David Lynch and more

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“I’m on a breathing machine 24/7, and I’ve started to lose the use of my left arm”: Ken Parker, designer of the Parker Fly guitar beloved by Adrian Belew and Joni Mitchell, launches crowdfunding campaign for cancer treatment

Parker was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in 2023

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Graham Nash still wants very specific Paul McCartney collaboration

Legendary songwriter Graham Nash has revealed one career goal he still wants to achieve - and it involves The Beatles icon Sir Paul McCartney.

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Annie Lennox: ‘I wanted to perform as a woman, not be regarded as a piece of meat’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: As the former Eurythmics superstar publishes a new illustrated memoir of her extraordinary career, she talks to Charlotte Cripps about being diagnosed as neurodivergent, why the American dream is over for many working-class Americans, and how the pop industry is hypersexualised

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“Create wide-ranging, piano-style chord voicings that aren’t available in regular tuning”: Loved by Joni Mitchell and Keith Richards alike, essential to slide players, here’s how you can explore chords in open D

These 5 shapes showcase the range of acoustic sounds and textures this open tuning grants access to

Guitar World

7 Musicians Who Lost Everything—Then Made It Back Again

Music history is full of artists who hit rock bottom only to rise again, often stronger and wiser. These seven musicians faced personal, financial, or professional collapse—and bounced back in inspiring ways. Their stories show that setbacks aren’t the end of the song but sometimes the start of a comeback…

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Nostalgia and political beef cap first sitting period

After infighting, political beef over cattle and the passage of an election promise, the 48th parliament has celebrated the end of its first sitting period.

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'Buckingham Nicks' was a record store holy grail for decades. It's finally getting reissued

Warner Music Group has announced that it's reissuing the lone album recorded by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham when they were just a duo

The Independent UK

Breakups, booty calls and bare-all balladry: SZA’s 20 best songs – ranked!

As her European tour with Kendrick Lamar continues in the UK, we rate the former Glastonbury headliner’s best tracks, from 2012’s debut to this year’s collaboration with Don Toliver

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“I had just done 9 months with Joni Mitchell… But that whole Dark Horse tour was a really weird thing. George was uncomfortable being a band leader”: Robben Ford on the highs and lows of touring with George Harrison

Blues/jazz maestro Robben Ford reflects on his time touring with George Harrison in the fall of 1974

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Rick Astley won't listen to Kylie Minogue's I Should Be So Lucky

Rick Astley has explained why he doesn't listen to I Should Be So Lucky by Kylie Minogue.

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“The good news is it was recorded – you can go online and see it. The bad news is that’s because someone stole all the master tapes”: Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter on his supergroup with Joe Walsh, sessions with Joni Mitchell and the voices of Albert King

The session great discusses being hand-picked by Gene Simmons, fitting in with James Brown, creating classic solos for Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, and Frankenstein acts on most of his guitars

Guitar World

“If you see me in my music, I haven’t done my job, but if you see yourself, my job is done”: Brandi Carlile reveals the songwriting maxim that Joni Mitchell lives by

“Joni has a knack for speaking the unspeakable and for making us all feel seen and uniquely understood,” she says

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“There was nothing challenging about it in any way whatsoever”: Robben Ford spent months touring with George Harrison – but the experience didn’t stretch his guitar chops

The Beatle’s music may not have put the fusion star’s guitar skills through their paces, but the tour proved the making of him in other ways

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The queens of collaboration in Lucius are finding themselves again musically

Singers Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe have worked with a roster of greats in the two decades they've been together — people like Harry Styles, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Jeff Tweedy and the Killers

The Guardian - UK

Drug runs for the Stones, a love triangle with Joni Mitchell: has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?

She managed tours for Queen and Led Zeppelin and was at George Harrison’s house when the Beatles split – but O’Dell is most proud of her legacy as a woman in a macho industry

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex reveals the song she would think of 'every time' she landed in LA

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has revealed the song she would think of "every single time" she landed in California.

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Sam Fender rocks out with The War On Drugs' Adam Granduciel at Coachella

Sam Fender performed with The War On Drugs' Adam Granduciel at Coachella.

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“One of the guys said, ‘Joni, there’s this weird bass player in Florida, you’d probably like him’”: How Joni Mitchell formed an unlikely partnership with Jaco Pastorius

Although much of his fame stems from his time with Weather Report, Jaco’s recordings with Joni Mitchell yielded some of the finest bass playing of his career

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"People started to leave. I was terrified": The story of Elton John's favourite Elton John album and the calamitous stadium show that followed

Gold even before its release, Captain Fantastic And The BrownDirt Cowboy was worth the hard work. But the album markedthe end of Elton John’s imperial period – and his band

The Guardian - UK

Trajal Harrell: The Köln Concert review – Keith Jarrett’s bestselling 70s jazz album made visible

Zürich Dance Ensemble’s extraordinary dancers, led by choreographer Harrell, all but embody the pianist’s free jazz musings, with a little help from Joni Mitchell

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Joni Mitchell described it as ‘fly fishing’ and Jeff Beck was a master of the craft – learn how to use volume swells like guitar legends Eddie Van Halen, Allan Holdsworth and Larry Carlton

Volume down, pick, volume up... violining offers loads of potential as this lesson proves

The Guardian - UK

‘Joni Mitchell’s Blue revolutionised the way I saw music’: Emeli Sandé’s honest playlist

The singer was a young fan of Mariah and pretends she hates one 70s musical classic, but which aquatic power ballad can she genuinely no longer stand?

The Guardian - UK

Raw, romantic and radical: Joan Baez’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

With her Diamonds and Rust album turning 50, we rate the standout tracks from the strident American folk singer and political activist

The Independent UK

Amanda Seyfried says marketing team ‘ruined’ Jennifer’s Body

‘Mean Girls’ star criticised promotional campaign for ‘cheapening’ the cult 2009 film by targeting male audiences with sexualised images of her co-star, Megan Fox

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