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Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About The Disney Movie

In honor of its 20th anniversary, here are some treasured behind-the-scenes facts about Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

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Keith Richards: “They haven't really improved the electric guitar since Les Paul and Leo Fender put their touch to it. Everything else is trying to sound like them”

In this classic interview from 2002, The Human Riff reflects on the key guitars, songs, and sounds from 40 years with The Rolling Stones

Guitar World

"Brian always had to have an enemy, he always had an imaginary foe": Five years after Brian Jones' death, Keith Richards was ready to talk about the myths surrounding the late Rolling Stones' guitarist, and he did not hold back

"Because he's dead I can say, 'Oh, Brian was a fantastic musician', but it wasn't true"

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'If I had joined the Rolling Stones maybe Brian would be alive', says Manfred Mann star

Paul Jones rose to fame as the frontman to Manfred Mann in the 1960s, but had the chance to join legendary rock band the Rolling Stones just as it was starting out

Daily Mirror

Keith Richards and Eric Clapton worshipped her solos, and Elvis idolized her sound: how Sister Rosetta Tharpe became an electric guitar trailblazer

The story of the Gibson-toting guitarist who lit the fire on a six-string revolution that paved the way for rock ’n’ roll

Guitar World

John Frusciante says he only found his identity as guitar player when Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Frusciante explains how discovering Television's Marquee Moon an epiphany with Keith Richards' solo on the Rolling Stones' Sympathy For The Devil changed everything

MusicRadar

The Black Crowes' Rich Robinson names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The seasoned tonesmith reflects on spending "some of the best moments of my life" with Jimmy Page, the guitarist with a tone so unbelievable that "no-one on this Earth can touch him" and why Duane Allman is just as important as Jimi Hendrix

Guitar World

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Fender American Vintage II 1972 Telecaster Thinline and 1975 Telecaster Deluxe review

Time has mellowed the wrath of the detractors and reinforced the joy of the believers in a range that divided opinion when first released in the early ’70s – and now it’s back with authentic CuNiFe humbuckers

Guitar World

Watch Brian May, James Burton, Arielle, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and 11-year-old Britain's Got Talent star Harry Churchill rock Johnny B. Goode

Albert Lee, Ronnie Wood, Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter and Tommy Emmanuel were also on hand at the London Palladium for a tribute to Burton, a legendary guitarist most famous for his tenure as Elvis Presley's six-string sidekick

Guitar World

Is this the guitar Keith Richards used at the Rolling Stones’ first-ever gig?

Many British guitar heroes of the ’60s started out on budget archtops that retain nostalgia value today. But what if you thought you had found Keef’s actual guitar?

Guitar World

Sergio Calderón death: Pirates of the Caribbean and Men in Black actor dies aged 77

Mexican actor’s career spanned six decades

The Independent UK

Drug busts, huge tours, and a litany of lovers - 60 years of the Rolling Stones

The world’s longest performing rock group’s three surviving members underwent a huge anniversary Sixty Tour last year, despite having a combined age of 233

Daily Mirror

Mick Hucknall on the 10 songs that changed his life: “The Beatles changed the way music sounded, but the Stones were the world’s greatest rock band”

“I know my musical history,” says The Simply Red frontman, as he discusses new album, Time, and his lost afternoon with Keith Richards

MusicRadar

‘Cool, tender and sweet Martin Amis was in another world’, Ian McEwan says in tribute

Ian McEwan has paid tribute to fellow author Martin Amis, who died from cancer of the oesophagus at his home in Florida at the weekend

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The week in TV: Steeltown Murders; High Desert; Ten Pound Poms; The Stones and Brian Jones and more

Philip Glenister sheds his Gene Hunt persona in a sharply honed Welsh murder drama; Patricia Arquette flexes her screwball muscles; and the UK’s first dating show for gay men isn’t all about the flirting

MusicRadar

"To me, the challenge of guitar playing is playing stuff people want to hear over and over again" – Nashville session player Rob McNelley teaches the art of writing hooks

"My favourite players are people like Keith Richards and George Harrison, they played a ton of great parts and hooks and riffs"

The Guardian - UK

The Stones and Brian Jones review – broken hearts, fatherless kids and Nazi regalia

He gave the Stones edge then drugs got the better of him and they dropped him. In Nick Broomfield’s moving film, he is remembered by the women who knew him intimately but briefly

Louder

Watch Jimi Hendrix hang out with The Rolling Stones backstage in New York on his last ever birthday

When The Rolling Stones played Madison Square Garden in 1969, Jimi Hendrix joined them backstage to chill out and play his guitar on what would be his final birthday

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Watch Keith Richards join Willie Nelson onstage for a poignant performance of We Had It All and Live Forever

“I’m surrounded by Nelsons,” jokes Keef as he joins the celebration concert for Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday

Louder

10 revolutionary instrumentals that inspired the guitarists who invented rock music

Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and the rest: They all owe so much to the instrumental artists of the 50s and 60s

MusicRadar

Electro-Harmonix adds beef to the Keef with the expanded Satisfaction Plus fuzz debuting an all-new Fat mode

You can get mo' satisfaction as EHX adds Fat mode plus Bias and Tone knobs to its vintage-style fuzz box – and it's just $99

Guitar World

Electro-Harmonix fattens up Keith Richards-channeling Satisfaction fuzz pedal

EHX's latest homage to the fuzz tone "that launched a thousand riffs" has been kitted out with a new "Fat" switch, plus a pair of additional control knobs, for an expanded palette of sounds

Louder

Keith Richards’ snarling reaction to being told that the Sex Pistols said he should retire

When Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards found out the Sex Pistols had been calling for the band to retire and "get out of the way", his reaction was like "a volcano erupting"

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Ringo Starr and Nile Rodgers celebrate Little Richard

Keith Richards also stars in this brilliant documentary. Plus: will we ever find out who bumped off Alan Conway in Magpie Murders? Here’s everything to watch this evening

Louder

The Rutles: the strange and surreal story of the original Spinal Tap

Formed from the ashes of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Rutles were a razorsharp pastiche of The Beatles with links to Monty Python and the Fab Four themselves

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