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Five Songs That Sound Like "Stairway to Heaven"

By Damian Fanelli

The 25 Things Every Guitarist Should Know

By Askold Buk

25 Off-the-Beaten-Path Albums Every Guitarist Needs to Hear

By Guitar World Staff

The Eagles' 20 Greatest Songs

By Andy Aledort, Richard Bienstock, Jimmy Brown, Alan Di Perna

Guitar World rounds up the top 20 Eagles tracks and breaks them down in an effort to provide some insight into what made this legendary guitar ensemble soar to great heights.

The 10 Best Stage Names of All Time

By Guitar World Staff

The Top 10 Guitar Tandems of All Time

By Guitar World Staff

Guitar World's 10 Essential Classic Metal Albums

By Dan Epstein

This list of Guitar World's 10 essential classic metal albums is part of a much larger feature — Guitar World's 100 Essential Guitar Albums — much of which you'll be seeing in the weeks ahead.

Great Musical Moments and Mistakes Made Magnificent in Headphones

By Brad Tolinski

Behind the Mask: A Brief History of Guitarists With an Identity Crisis

By Chris Gill

Top 10 Lessons Learned As a Session Guitarist

By Ron Zabrocki

This week I offer some lessons I've learned in the past 35 years to get you prepared for—or maybe even help you survive—the world of playing sessions for a living.

The Top 10 Drinking Songs of All Time

By Guitar World Staff

Top 10 Guitarists to Emulate for a Successful Studio Career

By Ron Zabrocki

10 Epic Live Black Sabbath Covers

By Richard Bienstock

Black Sabbath kicked off their farewell “The End” tour last month, and if the band is to be believed, it truly is the end.

Guitar World's Top 50 Guitar Albums of the Eighties

By Guitar World Staff

The Top 10 Concept Albums of All Time

By Guitar World Staff

Some damn musicologist determined these to be the top 10 best concept albums of all time.

Andy Summers' Top 10 Guitar Moments with The Police

By Jackson Maxwell

The Top 10 Wedding Songs

By Guitar World Staff

The Top 10 Reasons to Quit Playing Guitar

By Guitar World Staff

Austin Power: Stevie Ray Vaughan's 30 Greatest Recordings

By Damian Fanelli, Brad Tolinski, Andy Aledort

Guitar World celebrates the 30 greatest recordings of Stevie Ray Vaughan—from “Texas Flood” to “Riviera Paradise”…from “Couldn’t Stand the Weather” to “The Sky Is Crying.”