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Chris Buck and Chris Turpin collage
Chris Buck and Mirador guitarist Chris Turpin to showcase some of the world's most historic guitars at exclusive London event

By Jamie Dickson Published

Famous ’Bursts and T-Bone Walker’s 1949 ES-5N – the guitar that gave birth to electric blues – are among the legendary instruments set to feature

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Mick Taylor (left) and Mick Jagger perform onstage with the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park in London on July 5, 1969
Mick Taylor's Rolling Stones baptism by fire came just two days after Brian Jones' death – in front of 250,000 people

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Jones’ decline into drug addiction in the two years prior to his tragic death at the age of 27 prevented the Stones from touring, leaving them quite rusty – not that that lessened their drawing power

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Mick Taylor performs with the Rolling Stones in 1973
Mick Taylor says this obscure album cut is his best guitar performance with the Rolling Stones

By Jackson Maxwell Published

“Because of the structure of the song, it pushed my guitar playing in a slightly different direction,” the ex-Stone said of his unlikely pick

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English guitarist Keith Richards of rock group The Rolling Stones plays a Gibson Les Paul guitar with Bigsby Vibrato on the set of the ABC Television pop music television show Thank Your Lucky Stars at Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, England on 21st March 1965
The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to have solved the mystery of the Rolling Stones' 1959 Gibson Les Paul – which Mick Taylor alleges has been missing for decades

By Janelle Borg Published

The guitar, which was famously played by Keith Richards on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, was thought to have been stolen in 1971 – a rock 'n' roll legend which the Met refutes

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Left-Guitarist Keith Richards of rock & roll group The Rolling Stones on the set of music programme Ready Steady Go! in London, circa 1964; Right-Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Met Museum refutes that former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor ever owned the ’59 Les Paul he claims was stolen and now appears in a new exhibit

By Janelle Borg Published

Taylor's representatives are requesting that the museum make the guitar available for inspection – while the museum asserts that it was Keith Richards who held onto the guitar until 1971

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Keith Richards
A stolen Rolling Stones ’59 Les Paul that has been missing since 1972 has surfaced – in a museum

By Phil Weller Published

The guitar, also played by Keith Richards on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 before it was stolen by drug dealers, has been identified by its fingerprint-like flame top

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Anthony Krizan
Anthony Krizan on what it took to perform Hendrix with Noel Redding – and best Alex Skolnick in an audition

By Andrew Daly Published

The rock journeyman recalls the making of a lost song with ex-Rolling Stone, channeling Hendrix with Noel Redding and his time with The Spin Doctors

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Shane Fontayne playing a blue Stratocaster guitar onstage in 2019
Shane Fontayne on the kindness of Mick Ronson, serving the Boss – and playing Stairway for Jimmy Page

By Andrew Daly Published

His career highs include surprising Stevie Van Zandt with an improvised part, jamming with U2, and playing Stairway To Heaven with the Heart sisters while Jimmy Page was guest of honor

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Mythos Argo Boost Deluxe
That Pedal Show’s Mick Taylor sparks inspired change that sees the Argo Boost Deluxe serve octave fuzz sounds and clean boosting in one unit

By Phil Weller Published

Taylor was a fan of the original Argo, but when he discovered how it can double as a clean boost, he knew its recipe was worth a revisit

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John Mayall
From Eric Clapton to Peter Green, Mick Taylor and more – a guide to blues legend John Mayall’s ’60s Bluesbreakers guitarists

By Rich Davenport Published

The Bluesbreakers remained a unique force in British blues throughout the decade, thanks to its late leader’s unfailing ability to pick breathtaking bandmates

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