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Phil Collen plays live onstage with his signature Jackson Soloist
Phil Collen says Mutt Lange is an ace “one take” vocalist – and it’s the same with guitar

By Jonathan Horsley Published

For Collen, working with Lange is like “going to school for your favourite subject” but recreating the studio magic live on Def Leppard tracks such as Love Bites can be very tricky at first

Guitarists
JULY 13: LIVE AID Photo of Benjamin ORR and Elliot EASTON and CARS, Elliott Easton and Ben Orr of The Cars performing at Live Aid in Philadelphia
The creation of The Cars’ song Drive and how it soundtracked a humanitarian catastrophe

By Neil Crossley Published

Best of 2024: “The lyrics don't have to mean anything in an intellectual sense. They're endlessly interpretive. They just have to make an emotional sense”

Guitarists
Gwen Stefani
Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit

By Ben Rogerson Published

Best of 2024: She says she had “absolutely no idea” that it would become so successful

Bands
The Edge and Brian Eno composite picture
"He knows very little about an awful lot": The Edge on Eno and how he influenced his "limited" guitar style

By Will Groves Published

Best of 2024: Classic interview - U2 guitarist reflects on the making of The Unforgettable Fire in 1985 interview

Guitarists
Prince
Was Prince’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo played in anger?

By Ben Rogerson Published

Best of 2024: The magazine had omitted him from its list of the greatest guitarists of all time

Guitarists
Steve Cropper
“My playing sucks, but it sells!”: The guitarist who co-wrote two of the most famous songs ever admits he's no virtuoso

By Paul Elliott Published

Best of 2024: For R&B legend Steve Cropper, playing guitar is all about groove

Guitarists
Prince playing guitar
How Prince’s final, legendary guitar performance on SNL was saved by a quick-thinking audio engineer

By Ben Rogerson Published

Best of 2024: His 8-minute medley from 2014 is considered one of the greatest musical spots in the show’s history

Guitarists
American blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy performs live playing a Fender Stratocaster guitar on the American Folk Blues Festival tour in London in October 1965
When Buddy Guy rewrote the blues rulebook with a Strat and blew the collective minds of Clapton, Beck and Page

By Neil Crossley Published

Best of 2024: The inspirational playing of the last living American blues legend: "I was bringing it up to Eric and Jimmy – ‘Have you heard this stuff!?'"

Guitars
Beabadoobee
Beabadoobee on her unorthodox guitar style and how it helped her to gel with Rick Rubin

By Ben Rogerson Published

Best of 2024: “I think what I really go off with, and what Rick really goes off with, is what you feel and the vibe and what you hear,” she says

Singers & Songwriters
Pete Townshend of The Who smashes a Fender Telecaster guitar into the speaker cab of his amplifier during a concert at the Oberrheinhalle, Offenburg, Germany, 17th April 1967. Singer Roger Daltrey is behind him on the left. Marshall amplifier heads are visible behind the speaker cabs and the guitar is fitted with a Fender Stratocaster neck
"I'm going to pretend I'm Hendrix!'": Pete Townshend looks back in this classic 1990 guitar interview

By Guitarist magazine Published

Best of 2024: "The thing that really stunned Eric and me was the way he took what we did and made it better"

Guitarists
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