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The bass icon was one of the architects of the Wailers’ sound. But after Bob Marley’s death, he found himself embroiled in a bitter legal battle

After stripping the amp down and retesting it, Ashdown finally discovered the culprit – and it had nothing to do with the amp

The 15-year-old me was devastated when my dream guitar got scratched. It led to an unforgettable moment in a luthier’s workshop, with a guy I didn’t recognise and an instrument I didn’t like the look of

Guitars are up-front and center of new solo album, The Way It Was Before, but as Dave Stewart explains, the guitars were always there in the Eurythmics sound

The ZZ Top frontman admits he only recognized just how gifted Prince was as a player when he saw him bring the house down at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards

The punk pioneer tells GW about his “point and shoot” playing, the CBGB scene’s “misfits and renegades” – and why one pickup is all you need

Big Country were inescapable in the ’80s. Twenty-five years since Stuart Adamson’s tragic passing, we speak to guitarist Bruce Watson about keeping the band’s flag flying

Lifelong partner Rita Haney and Dean Guitars founder Dean Zelensky discuss their five-year struggle to claim back the Pantera icon’s designs, and the secret guitar shapes to come under the Dime Guitarz banner

Europe’s new album is the sound of “old men” shaken awake, but can they outrun the cultural juggernaut of their greatest single – and would they want to?

The guitarist and bassist reveals why Prince demanded so much out of his band, why you can’t get an Epiphone in his shade of blue, and how Sexy MF came to be