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Man wearing headphones playing air guitar

The top 10 air guitar songs of all time

By Guitar World Staff Published

From Free Bird’s iconic guitar solo to the legendary licks of Layla, here are the best tracks to “play” when you’re without your axe but fancy an impromptu practice session

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Gretsch Malcolm Young Beast Signature Jet

Gretsch honors Malcolm Young with all-new, limited-edition “Red Beast” Signature Jet

By Matt Owen Published

Based on the rhythm great's original Beast as it appeared during AC/DC's early years, the signature sports three pickups, a Vintage Firebird Red finish and gold hardware

Electric Guitars
Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend took rock further, with big volume, big ideas, and ever more ambitious songwriting

The greatest guitar albums of the ‘70s: Getting the Led out with Sabbath, the Who, Pink Floyd and more

By Jenna Scaramanga Published

Punk was a revolution, disco a global phenomenon, but the guitar music of the '70s was dominated by the giants of rock. Here are the decade's top 10 guitar albums, as chosen by you...

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Guns N' Roses perform live in 2020

Watch Guns N’ Roses cover AC/DC’s Back in Black at recent Spain show

By Matt Parker Published

See Slash and company take on their second new AC/DC cover in three days

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Slash performing live

Watch Guns N’ Roses cover AC/DC and revisit deep cuts for the first time in 30 years at first show of 2022 European tour

By Matt Owen Published

Reckless Life and the Appetite for Destruction version of You're Crazy were performed for the first time in three decades, and were accompanied by a cover of AC/DC's Walk All Over You

Concert, Gigs & Tours
James Hetfield and a dulcimer

Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and AC/DC guitar riffs performed on obscure percussion instruments sounds surprisingly brilliant

By Matt Parker Published

You didn’t know you needed a cover of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck on the slap-o-phone in your life… until today

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Angus Young performs with AC/DC at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 1983

AC/DC's Angus Young: "I liked the SGs because they were light. I tried Fenders but they were too heavy and they just didn't have the balls"

By Steven Rosen Published

In his first GW interview from 1984, AC/DC's lead guitar dynamo discusses his beloved #1 SG and why you can't beat a Marshall hundred-watt stack

Bands
(from left) Malcolm Young, Angus Young and Phil Rudd of AC/DC perform live in Munich, Germany

AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young: "Most of our early tracks speed up toward the end. After the guitar solo we’d start to take off!"

By Richard Bienstock Published

In this classic Guitar World interview from 2003, the brothers Young revisit the albums and songs that made them guitar giants

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[L-R] Prince William and Angus Young

Prince William begins his week by listening to AC/DC's Thunderstruck

By Sam Roche Published

“The first time I put it on I thought, ‘This is quite heavy’, but now, when I listen to it, it's the best tonic for a Monday morning,” the royal says

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(from left) Dave Grohl, H.E.R. and Wolfgang Van Halen

Foo Fighters, Mammoth WVH, AC/DC, Black Pumas, St. Vincent, H.E.R., Dream Theater nominated for Grammys

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Chris Cornell, Deftones, Arlo Parks, Gojira, Mastodon, Weezer, Paul McCartney, Joe Bonamassa, Japanese Breakfast and Cedric Burnside were also among the nominees

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