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“It’s our Stairway To Heaven, our Hotel California”: The No 1 rock anthem inspired by a bad breakup
By Paul Elliott published
“I’m being so sarcastic in that song, I can’t believe so many people don’t get it”

“I was like ‘That’s not my one’”: Dave Grohl recalls the time Nine Inch Nails laughed at him
By Beth Simpson published
“They’re like ‘come in here’. I walk in the control room, and they’re like ‘tell me where you think the one is?’”

Thomann just dropped a massive sale on gig-ready live sound gear with up to 50% off
By Daryl Robertson published
For a limited time, you can score substantial discounts on mics, speakers, in-ear monitors, mixers, and so much more

PRS and Ed Sheeran just unveiled a hollowbody baritone electric for all occasions
By Jonathan Horsley published
The pop megastar's SE Hollowbody I Piezo Baritone officially joins the main PRS lineup, and it's joined by a regular scale sibling – and a refresh of the SE amp lineup's finish options

Mike Stock: “Put Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter in the '80s and they couldn’t have got arrested"
By Ben Rogerson published
"They don’t have to worry about the song," he argues

Misha Mansoor’s Evertune-equipped 8-string might be the heaviest signature Jackson of all time
By Jonathan Horsley published
“I think the Evertune was the final piece of the puzzle,” says the Periphery riff-master as this extended-range monster arrives in a Nardo Gray finish and Mansoor's signature humbuckers

"No-one in a band hears drums like a drummer does": Carlos de la Garza on why drummers make the best producers
By Danny Turner published
From punk drummer to multi-talented studio supremo, Carlos de la Garza has worked with everyone from Paramore to Ziggy Marley. We sit down with the in-demand producer/songwriter to talk about his varied career

Is this the beginning of the end for the S-style? Fender issues cease and desist to US builder
By Jonathan Horsley published
We are now seeing the downstream effects of Fender's legal victory in Germany as Strat EU legal protections bring lawyers' letters to the doors of US guitar makers
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