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Listen to the previously unheard recording of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s riotous 1967 performance of the Beatles’ Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The track is the latest gold to be shared from the forthcoming live album capturing Hendrix’s storming set at the Hollywood Bowl, California, and it features some incendiary playing
U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere - inside the tech behind the greatest show currently on earth
U2 have just launched their 25-night live, visual and sound sensoria that pops eyes and boggles minds. Here’s how they do it
Al Di Meola suffers heart attack onstage – guitar maestro in stable condition and plans return to the stage in 2024
“Music has always been a source of healing and strength for me, and I can’t wait to be back on stage,” writes the jazz-fusion legend has he announces a short hiatus to recover
Bob Dylan goes electric again during a surprise set with The Heartbreakers at Farm Aid 2023
Bob's on the Tele
See Eric Clapton joined by Stevie Wonder, Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to Jeff Beck while Gales, Fish and Kingfish unite at Crossroads Guitar Festival
It's all going down at the Crossroads – literally in the case of Eric Gales, Samantha Fish and Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram who covered Freddie King's classic
John Mayer breaks out his Monterey Hendrix Strat, solos with H.E.R and guest with Sheryl Crow at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival
A short but sweet set with Pino Palladino and Steve Jordan as the Trio, and two guest appearances
“It makes it exciting and dangerous and fun”: Yngwie Malmsteen says he doesn’t need to rehearse anymore and explains why he mostly ignores the setlist
Why? It's the secret to a long and happy career onstage – even if it is a little dangerous
“Right now I’d like to do a song, it’s a little thing by Howlin’ Wolf…”: Listen to Jimi Hendrix’s newly unearthed performance of Killing Floor at the Hollywood Bowl, 1967
New Hendrix live album alert! Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967 is an unreleased, never bootlegged capture of the band’s LA set, and it’s out 10 November
Watch Jimmy Page unleash one of his wildest solos in unreleased footage of Led Zeppelin covering Little Richard’s Long Tall Sally at the Royal Albert Hall
Long Tall Sally never made the DVD cut but it closed out one of the most legendary sets in Led Zeppelin history, and the most complete version of the video has emerged online
“Some of the songs have taken on a sort of highly pumped symphonic feel”: Johnny Marr to perform with a 30-piece orchestra at two hometown shows
Marr will celebrate a decade of his solo career by performing his tracks in the company of an orchestra for the first time ever at Manchester’s Aviva Studios in December