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“It was a challenge to myself: ‘I’m not gonna have a chorus in this song’”: How Jack White created the riff of the century
"It's the kind of riff you figure out when you're learning how to play guitar"
“Miles said, ‘Play it like you don’t know how to play the guitar!’”: John McLaughlin's baptism of fire with Miles Davis
He cut his teeth with Miles on the classic In A Silent Way
“I remember saying to Clapton, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: The secret to Status Quo's riff power
"That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from"
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“I didn’t even want it on the album”: How Alanis Morissette created her biggest hit
“I see words as paint, so I play with them," she said
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“I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff”: How Courtney Love created a grunge classic
Hole’s song Violet came out just a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide
“When Ronnie sang about Neil Young that was kind of a joke”: The true story of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama
"Neil wanted to play the song with us!"
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