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“John said we were the best stuff he'd heard since the Beatles”: Davey Johnstone on Elton John’s collab with John Lennon
How a visit from John Lennon during the sessions for Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy yielded an impromptu Beatles cover and another number one hit
“It’s been on stage with everyone from Deep Purple to Janet Jackson. It kind of blows me away that people ever responded in that way”: PRS reworks Mark Lettieri’s signature Fiore as super-versatile dual-humbucker model with serial/parallel switching
Available with satin or gloss finishes in a variety of colours, this is a clever refresh of Lettieri’s smash-hit do-it-all S-style
“Steve Cropper was right next door, and he wrote the song. I was kind of nervous!”: When a guitar hero got the jitters
It was a recording that could have led to Bolton joining Journey
Epiphone unveils signature G-3 Grabber with Gibson USA pickups for Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt
The Grabber was Dirnt's first Gibson bass and he says his Epiphone performs just as well, and he has tested it in front of 180,000 people
“There might be hits”: Why Pete Townshend is interested in using AI
But then the Who guitarist has never been afraid of tech
“I was just making sure I left my mark”: Pete Townshend smashed a guitar at every show of The Who’s first US tour
"I was just making sure I left my mark"
Alex Skolnick on the time he was on standby for Megadeth – and what to do when you can’t match a player lick for lick
With Kiko Loureiro's wife pregnant, Megadeth needed an understudy for emergency cover. The Testament guitarist answered the call but admits Loureiro's solos were impossible
Cesar Gueikian on building the SG Kirk Hammett played to honour Black Sabbath and how his designs might shape future Gibson releases
The Gibson CEO on his guitar-making journey, from early missteps to making the SG Hammett rocked at Back To The Beginning, and the Ghost Burst finish that's coming soon to the Gibson lineup
