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(from left) Alexi Laiho, Nanci Griffith and Michael Nesmith

Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2021

By Jackson Maxwell published

Between them, these guitar greats had a lasting impact on death metal, country-rock, jazz, surf-rock and punk

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Hilton Valentine of the Animals at a recording session, London, circa 1964.

The Animals guitarist and founding member Hilton Valentine dies aged 77

By Michael Astley-Brown published

Valentine arranged and performed the iconic intro to The House of the Rising Sun

Guitarists