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A classic interview with guitar innovator Les Paul
Les Paul was born 109 years ago, in 2009 the guitar icon looked back in one of his last-ever interviews – "Leo wanted me to be partners with him, for it to be the Fender guitar – the Les Paul Fender"
John Lee Hooker: "Eric Clapton, John Mayall and all those other people over in England made the blues a big thing. In the States, people didn't want to know"
Legendary bluesman on his latter-day fame
"I remember saying to Eric, 'I'm going to play him off the stage one day'. But what Eric did was even more peculiar, he said, 'Well, I'm going to pretend that I am Jimi Hendrix!'": Pete Townshend looks back in this classic 1990 guitar interview
"The thing that really stunned Eric and me was the way he took what we did and made it better"
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"
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"
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"
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"
In 1988 a candid SRV sat down with Guitarist magazine for his first and only cover feature during his lifetime – here it is in full
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!‘“
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
New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (February 2019)
The latest pedals and things with strings
New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (April 2018)
Forget the April showers with this little lot
New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (November 2017)
In the month of Halloween, we had a scary amount of great guitar gear to look at (and, indeed, to play).
New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (October 2017)
All of the guitar reviews in one place!
New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (August 2017)
The latest guitar reviews in one place!
10 tips for better recorded acoustic guitar sound
Sound better in the studio now!
Acoustic Guitarist Of The Year 2011 finalists announced
Six contenders for the title, in association with Takamine Guitars
In pictures: Brian May's Red Special up close
Huge behind the scenes feature in Guitarist magazine issue 386, on sale now!
Dave Davies to play first UK show in 13 years this week
50 years since You Really Got Me celebrated
Bernie Marsden's guitar collection
The Whitesnake rocker is famed for his 1959 Les Paul, yet there's considerable beauty beyond 'The Beast' in Bernie's enviable stockpile
VIDEO: Cort Yorktown-BV and Sunset I electric guitar demo
Hear the semi and hollowbody in action
Guitarist Of The Year 2011 set for 3-4 June
The Guitarist Of The Year 2011 live final will take place at London's Southbank Centre during the London Guitar Festival - buy tickets now!
Young Guitarist Of The Year 2011 finalists announced
Meet the finalists in association with Blackstar Amplification
