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Bob Dylan and Robby Robertson perform onstage during The Last Waltz Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco

Classic interview: Robbie Robertson on The Last Waltz, his bronze Strat and playing in the eye of the storm with Dylan – "On that tour in 1965 and ’66… I have never heard of anybody going through something like that, ever, in music history"

By Jamie Dickson published 15 August 23

A 2017 Guitarist magazine interview with the late guitarist found him looking back on making history

Paul McCartney at 80: Classic acoustic guitar interview - "I never learned the proper way of picking"

By Guitarist magazine published 18 June 22

Paul's Beatles classics Blackbird, Michelle, Yesterday and more discussed

Classic interview: Rory Gallagher - "Jimmy Page makes a point of it and congratulations to him and Keith Richards, some of their best notes are the ones that are fluffed"

By Guitarist magazine, Neville Marten published 2 March 22

In 1987 Guitarist magazine met with the bluesman to discuss his forthcoming Defender album, but learned much more

Classic interview: Stevie Ray Vaughan – "With Hendrix’s music I kept listening and kept trying and trying, and some of the things I just stumbled onto when I’d be playing and things would kind of come to me"

By Guitarist magazine published 17 January 22

In 1988 a candid SRV sat down with Guitarist magazine for a cover story– here is that interview in full

Classic interview with guitarist and innovator Les Paul – "Leo wanted me to be partners with him, for it to be the Fender guitar: the Les Paul Fender"

By Guitarist magazine published 26 July 21

The guitar icon speaks in one of his last ever interviews

Classic Interview: Eric Clapton – “I was in it to save the world. I wanted to tell the world about blues and to get it right. In a way I thought, ‘Yes, I am God; quite right!‘“

By Guitarist magazine published 20 July 21

In this Guitarist interview from 1994, Slowhand looks back on the early days with John Mayall, The Yardbirds and Cream, and explains why blues was the only education he needed