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Tommy Emmanuel and Les Paul: On the left, Emmanuel beats on the top of his beat-up acoustic with some brushes. On the right, Les Paul laughs onstage at the Iridium, with his eponymous guitar cradled on his lap.

Tommy Emmanuel on the time Les Paul baited him into bringing his A-game to a jam

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Aussie acoustic guitar maestro found out the hard way that Les Paul had a wicked sense of humor

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Phil Lynott and Eric Bell of Thin Lizzy perform at London's Marquee in 1973.

Original Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell on reinventing an old Irish standard as a rock track and performing it with the “cartoon” Metallica

By Andrew Daly published

Original Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell explains the roots and finer points of his Whiskey in the Jar guitar solo and phrasing and how he got the tone on the record

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs' guitarist Adam Ian Sykes plays his white Gibson SG onstage

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs launch Christmas appeal for unused gear to give to musicians who can’t afford their own

By Jonathan Horsley published

The English metal band have launched an initiative in their hometown asking for gear donations that will be given away at Christmas

Guitarists
Emimem and Jack White tear the Ford Field stadium in Detroit a new one during their 2025 Thanksgiving halftime show.

Jack White just lit up the NFL halftime show at Ford Field with White Stripes classics and bringing Eminem out from nowhere

By Jonathan Horsley published

Jack White is a man who knows how to make full use of his time onstage – and during this Thanksgiving set, he put on a seven-and-a-half-minute rock 'n' roll masterclass (with some bonus hip-hop)

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Epiphone Back to the Future 1955 ES-345

Epiphone Back to the Future ES-345s are being listed for up to $7,000 as scalpers strike the second-hand market

By Matt Owen published

Punters are taking advantage of the hype surrounding the release by attempting to flip the sold-out guitars at extortionate premiums

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Will Paquin wears a chain mail suit and sunglasses and holds a Guild Polara in Cherry Red in front of a castle.

Meet Will Paquin, the polymath who is reluctantly stepping into the spotlight to give alt-rock and indie Brazilian flair

By Marcello De Feo published

Paquin might have introduced himself already on TikTok but his bravura debut, Hahaha, is the sound of someone ready to welcome everyone to the party

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Ace Frehley performing live on stage, playing Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar

The guitar world pays tribute to the late Ace Frehley – the Spaceman who took Kiss into orbit

By Jonathan Horsley published

Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons lead tributes to the Kiss co-founder and larger-than-life former lead guitarist, who has died, aged 74

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Blood Incantation's Paul Rield [left] and Morris Kolontyrsky tear it up live in this artily shot action photos

How Blood Incantation’s Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky are opening the Stargate to take death metal to a higher cosmic plane

By Amit Sharma published

On album number four, Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky are taking their “Morbid Angel meets Pink Floyd” concept to new creative heights

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Jack Moore frets a chord on his black Les Paul Standard.

How Jack Moore is expressing his own sonic identity with Marshall amps, wah pedal extremity – and his father's signature Les Paul

By Jim Beaugez published

Jack Moore, the son of legendary player Gary Moore, steps into a musical world shaped by folk and pop, but a gift for the blues runs in the family

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A black-and-white portrait of a shirtless Ozzy Osbourne in John Lennon sunglasses and his hand on his forehead.

The life and times of Ozzy Osbourne – metal’s godfather and Prince of Darkness

By Joel McIver published

Remembering John “Ozzy” Osbourne, the frontman who breathed life into heavy metal and found some of its greatest guitar players

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