George Harrison’s rare Bartell fretless electric guitar sells for more than $300,000 at auction By Richard Bienstock The ‘60s-era instrument is also believed to have been played by John Lennon
Fender releases George Harrison ‘Rocky’ Stratocaster replica By Michael Astley-Brown $25,000 Custom Shop model recreates the Beatle’s hand-painted Magical Mystery Tour guitar
Watch Slash, Gilby Clarke and Matt Sorum “Come Together” with Lzzy Hale to cover the Beatles classic By Richard Bienstock Hale also traded vocals with Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander on AC/DC’s It’s a Long Way to the Top during the (DE)TOUR Virtual Music Festival
Paul McCartney reveals how Jimi Hendrix inspired him to buy his favorite electric guitar By Richard Bienstock The Beatles legend also weighs in on what he considers his best solo
The Beatles: guitar by guitar - a guide to the models that made music history By Tony Bacon The Beatles revolutionised music and made the guitar the world's most popular instrument. On the 50th anniversary of their final album, we trace the models that made the magic…
The Last of Us Part II gamers are using its virtual guitar to play songs by the Beatles, Metallica and more By Richard Bienstock Check out Here Comes the Sun, Nothing Else Matters and more
Paul McCartney's 6 best guitar solos with The Beatles By Damian Fanelli Though he was technically their bassist, Paul McCartney was responsible for many fine six-string moments in The Beatles catalog
The Beatles' break-up in 1970 yielded some of its members' best work - and these 9 albums prove it By Damian Fanelli The year saw the collapse of the world's most commercially successful band of all time. But it also saw the genesis of its members' solo careers...
The best 12-string guitar songs of all time By Josh Hart and Damian Fanelli 31 of the greatest moments of 12-string shimmer in guitar's storied history
The inside story of The Beatles' turbulent break-up - and what came next By Alan di Perna 50 years on, we dig deep into the unraveling of the most commercially successful band of all time, and the subsequent solo careers of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison
Watch Lars Ulrich’s sons play “insane, crazy, garage-rock version” of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby By Richard Bienstock “You know what, boys? You done me proud,” the Metallica drummer says
How to borrow chords from a parallel minor key and lend your songs a bittersweet edge By Jimmy Brown Learn a songwriting trick used by everyone from Eric Clapton to The Beatles
Dave Mustaine and daughter Electra play The Beatles’ Come Together while in quarantine By Richard Bienstock The Mustaines come together right now – alone
Billy Sheehan names 5 of his favorite bass albums By Bass Player Staff Sheehan is one of the world’s most accomplished bassists - so we can all learn from the five albums that influenced him
Al Di Meola offers a moving tribute to The Beatles with Across The Universe By Jackson Maxwell Sponsored The jazz-fusion guitar legend is back with another stunningly eclectic homage to the Fab Four
The 20 heaviest songs before Black Sabbath By Richard Bienstock Behold, gentle reader, a sizzlin’ slew of down and dirty tracks that helped forge heavy metal
The Analogues' Bart van Poppel: "A lot of Paul McCartney’s bass thinking came from him starting out as a guitar player" By Amit Sharma The tonally authentic Beatles tribute band's bass player, producer and musical director serves up a McCartney masterclass…
A rare John Lennon and George Harrison-owned fretless guitar just surfaced - and it's worth over $500,000 By Jackson Maxwell The oddball electric popped up on a recent episode of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow
Al Di Meola on The Beatles: "It's surprising that they had the guts to play those kind of chords" By Joshua M. Miller The jazz-fusion great talks Across the Universe, his latest tribute to the Fab Four
The story behind Paul McCartney's 1963 Höfner 500/1 violin bass By E.E. Bradman How a humble instrument hanging from "a little shop in the center of town" became the most iconic bass guitar of all time
