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‘Dreams do come true’ – William Orbit on the pure joy of playing with his musical heroes Hawkwind

Hawkwind’s In Search of Space was the first record William Orbit ever bought, and tonight he will be on stage with them at the Royal Albert Hall

Evening Standard

23 of the funniest misheard song lyrics, from Elton John to Adele

‘Hold me closer, Tony Danza?’ Ellie Harrison rounds up of all the words people tend to mishear in famous songs

The Independent UK

John Mayer is one of the most lyrical soloists playing today – learn his tricks to crafting memorable leads

Mayer is a player who wears his influences well but always brings his own twist – we take look at how he applies this to his solos, and how you can, too

Guitar World

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“I have never heard a sound like that, before or since”: in 1967, Queen’s Brian May was an unknown student. Then he booked Jimi Hendrix to play his college for £1000 and his life changed forever

A pre-fame Brian May got to watch Jimi Hendrix play a student ball from 10 feet away

Louder

30 guitarists on the guitar heroes who changed their life

Slash, Angus Young, Paul Stanley, Billy Gibbons reveal the guitarists who made them want to play in the first place

Louder

"We could have been bigger had we had an amazing manager. We’re our own worst enemies": How Roxy Music got it together despite themselves

They looked like they were from “Planet Zog” and sneaked through a gap created by drug addiction - but the members accept they could have made it easier for themselves

Louder

Use the CAGED system to play guitar chords across the fretboard quickly and easily

Unleash the beast and unlock your guitar neck with this well-established system

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Electric Ladyland: Custom Electric Motorcycle Inspired By Rock And Roll

German custom bike builder Jürgen Becker pays homage to the era of rock and roll with his custom electric motorcycle called Electric Ladyland.

RideApart

"We got mobbed for autographs – thousands of screaming schoolgirls and we had to escape in a limo": the wild ride of Pacific Gas & Electric

Fêted by critics, mobbed by crowds, admired by Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton… then God intervened to dim the lights of Pacific Gas & Electric

Louder

Watch Erja Lyytinen bust out the kazoo and pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix with a blazing slide cover of Crosstown Traffic

Hendrix in open C? Why not!? The performance is taken from the Finnish blues phenom’s forthcoming live album, Diamonds On The Road – Live 2023, which hits stores 6 October

MusicRadar

Woodstock Festival: 50 mind-blowing facts about the original celebration of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

The Woodstock Festival became part of rock'n'roll folklore as half a million hippies descended on a farm in upstate New York in 1969

Louder

Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page are some of guitar’s greatest trailblazers – learn their styles and level up your playing with this rock guitar deep-dive

The styles of Slash, Eric Clapton, Ritchie Blackmore and a suite of other rock gods are placed under the microscope for this comprehensive lesson – tabs and audio included

Guitar World

“Pop music didn’t offer enough open space for improvisation… there was no way we were going to play a tune the same way twice”: How Soft Machine pioneered the Canterbury scene

By the time debut album The Soft Machine was released in 1968, they’d already split up - but its impact changed everything

Louder

"Syd Barrett was absolutely unbelievable": Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page on Pink Floyd's "very, very cool" early years and Syd Barrett's "futuristic vision"

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page was hugely impressed by Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd

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“I would definitely advise trying classical guitar – it’s really easy to translate classical chord shapes to pop music”: How NY duo The Lemon Twigs are leading the ’70s glam rock guitar revival

Power-pop enthusiast Brian D’Addario on his love of 12-strings, surprising guitar heroes, and how fingerstyle on a nylon-string can be the foundation for all songwriting on guitar

Guitar World

Sunn’s first official drop revives amps used by Adam Jones, Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix

The Beta Lead and 100S are back, and they're joined by a host of bass heads, speaker cabs and monitors

Cinemablend

13 Great Hayley Atwell Movies And TV Shows And How To Watch Them

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One star Hayley Atwell has many other great movies and TV shows under her belt.

Guitar World

“The world needs it back”: Sunn Amplifiers – the brand used by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend and countless doom metal heroes – has been revived with the help of Fender

All-new models and “historic reproductions of the classic Sunn designs” are expected to arrive later this year

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“Mick came in with his Les Paul, plugged in to my amp and fiddled with the controls. All of a sudden there it was, the full Ziggy Stardust tone”: The post-Bowie career of Mick Ronson, rock ’n’ roll’s most quietly spoken guitar hero

Sure, he made a massive imprint on David Bowie’s classic early ’70s albums. But Mick Ronson also worked with Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Elton John, Roger McGuinn, Morrissey, Ian Hunter and many others

Guitar World

Stevie Ray Vaughan defined the sound of contemporary blues guitar – here are 20 techniques you can learn from the Stratocaster master

Get inside the Texas blues icon’s style with this in-depth lesson on his incendiary playing

Guitar World

“You would make Jimi proud if he heard that solo”: Greg Sover and Jimi Hendrix bassist Billy Cox cover Hendrix’s deep cut, Remember

The Philadelphian guitarist and singer steps up to fill some of the biggest shoes in guitar history – with David Bowie’s amp along for the ride

Guitar World

"I'm finally getting up there with Eric Johnson… and the amp goes to s**t!" Orianthi on her A-list collaborations and the guitarists who shaped her sound

The Aussie virtuoso reflects on playing with Steve Vai and Santana, meeting B.B. King, and why Gary Moore was a pioneer of blues-metal soloing

MusicRadar

50 guitar chord shapes guitarists need to know

Increase your fretboard vocabulary now!

Louder

“The others realised they couldn’t stop me because it was too close to the show… I got away with it, although it was a close-run thing”: How Peter Gabriel developed his Genesis frontman act

It may have caused conflict, but his insistence on sticking with his artistic vision paid off in countless ways

Louder

“Some guy who obviously didn’t recognise me said, ‘You just ruined a classic song.’ But another chap replied, ‘He’s allowed. He wrote the song!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident

The keyboard legend's jam-packed career saw interactions with a varied cast from the ‘strange’ Dario Argento to Motörhead’s Lemmy

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