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Nile Rodgers and Slash perform live at the Budokan in 1996

Slash once joined Nile Rodgers and Chic for a marathon Le Freak solo spot – but the show ended in tragedy

By Michael Astley-Brown last updated

Watch the 1996 performance the Guns N’ Roses guitarist called “the biggest privilege of my life” – at the concert that would prove to be bass legend Bernard Edwards’ last

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Marcos Mena of the band Standards

From two-hand-tapped math-pop to arena-primed blues-rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown published

On tap this week are exciting and vital new tunes from Standards, Larkin Poe, Thrice, Malevolence, Foals, Horsegirl, Coheed and Cambria, Everything Everything and more

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Steve Vai (background, left) and Nile Rodgers recording the theme song for Halo 2

Watch Nile Rodgers shred up a storm on Steve Vai's Ibanez JEM in recently unearthed studio footage from Halo 2 score sessions

By Jackson Maxwell published

Posted online by Halo series composer Martin O'Donnell, the footage shows Rodgers and Vai taking the game's iconic theme in a more guitar-heavy direction

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Nile Rodgers plays his new signature Fender Hitmaker Stratocaster

Fender salutes Nile Rodgers with new signature Hitmaker Stratocaster

By Jackson Maxwell published

The new model is based on the white hybrid Strat the funk guitar legend has used on innumerable hit songs through the decades

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Peter Frampton, Joan Jett, Slash and Nile Rodgers

Les Paul Foundation recruits Slash, Joan Jett, Peter Frampton and Nile Rodgers to head up new Advisory Council

By Matt Owen published

The 13-strong board will further the mission of the foundation by offering support for music education, engineering and hearing health

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Nile Rodgers auction guitars

Nile Rodgers to sell over 100 guitars and basses in mammoth We Are Family Foundation charity auction

By Matt Owen published

The Chic legend's Hitmaker Fender Prototype Stratocaster headlines the collection, which also boasts a bass used on David Bowie's Let's Dance and a Tokai played on Daft Punk's Get Lucky

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Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi

Richie Sambora says his role in Bon Jovi was to “shut the f**k up”

By Matt Parker published

The former Bon Jovi guitarist made the revelation in a discussion with Nile Rodgers

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[L-R] David Gilmour, Eddie Van Halen, St. Vincent and Brian May

The greatest delay moments of all time: 25 classic guitar tracks elevated by echo

By Jonathan Horsley published

The exemplars of echo, the doyens of digital and the analog innovators that made delay pedals a pedalboard perennial for guitar players

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[L-R] Nile Rodgers and Steven Wilson

Nile Rodgers joins forces with Steven Wilson for funk-driven remix of Personal Shopper

By Sam Roche published

The Chic legend reimagines Wilson's The Future Bites single with his trademark six-string grooves

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Nile Rodgers: “To me, the less information I throw at you at once, the funkier something sounds“

By Jamie Dickson published

The Hitmaker himself talks about his love of jazz, the possibilities of the Acoustasonic and the importance of the notes he doesn't play

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