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“My mom said, ‘I’ll lend you a quarter if you become a guitar player.’ I think I did!”: Steve Cropper dies aged 84
By Paul Elliott published
A key figure in shaping the sound of soul music in the ’60s

Adrian Belew on how he and Seymour Duncan made one of the first relic’d guitars
By Jonathan Horsley published
The prog guitar icon has posted new pics taken by Seymour Duncan that show off their handiwork as they turned Belew's new Strat into a relic and started guitar's most controversial trend

How TEED went back to basics with a bedroom set-up and a borrowed synth for third album Always With Me
By Jim Ottewill published
The artist formerly known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs dives into the making of his latest project, driven by a desire to keep things simple and find joy in the creative process

“People said, ‘Hey, I saw you’re on that Avril Lavigne record.’ I went, ‘Nah!'”: The drummer who’s played on 400 albums
By Eric Everett published
"I knocked out four or five songs in an evening"

Flea teases his first solo album with a seven minute jazz rave single
By Will Simpson published
The video is directed by his daughter

"When culture is allowed to move freely, people discover that their common ground is far wider than the borders that divide them": Level 42's Mark King, Jools Holland and Dame Evelyn Glennie join alliance to remove barriers to UK-EU touring
By Harry Bowden-Ford published
Barriers include rising costs and lengthy visa processes

Fender and Jackson celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with limited run signature collection
By Jonathan Horsley published
Choose your fighter, Maiden fans, with four variations on the archetypical Superstrat including a Custom Shop doozy... And it is foot on the monitor time with that Harris P-Bass

Greg Lester on how he crafted the classic nylon-string guitar solo in the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1
By Ben Rogerson published
“It was actually very well conceived but it didn't sound guitaristic at all,” he says of the original demo

Nuno Bettencourt on why he handed Shot Of The Dark over to Jake E Lee at Ozzy's farewell show
By Jonathan Horsley published
Bettencourt says Lee was far too humble and had to remind him that he had done the impossible by not only replacing Randy Rhoads but taking Ozzy Osbourne to “another place”
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