How Susanna Hoffs went from LA art student and punk fan to founding guitarist and voice of The Bangles, reshaping 80s pop with jangle and attitude.
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In a fiery 1984 interview, Rory Gallagher tore into lazy rock guitar, synth worship and click‑track rhythm. His rant still sounds like a blueprint for better playing.
Joni Mitchell started as a broke art student with a baritone ukulele, a scab club gig and no union card. Here is how that struggle shaped her sound.
Jimmy Page vs Peter Frampton, compared where it counts: tone, technique, live power and lasting impact on rock guitar.
Carlos Santana says the best music ‘plays you’ – and his body rejected Elvis. What he really means about groove, Africa, Miles and listening with your bones.
Blind, seated and ferociously inventive, Jeff Healey turned a stock Strat into something terrifyingly new. Here’s how his lap-style blues and jazz still school guitarists.
Before stadiums and schoolboy uniforms, Angus Young was a teenage firebrand in Kantuckee. Here is what we really know about that loud, half-mythical 1972 era.
Inside Roy Buchanan’s brutal simplicity: band-hopping, horn sections, stolen drum licks and the terrifying power of a single note to beat a thousand.
Santana did not write ‘Black Magic Woman’. Here is how Peter Green, Otis Rush and a forgotten Fleetwood Mac blues band conjured the song’s dark magic.
How a skinny 17 year old Johnny Winter crashed B.B. King’s stage, grabbed Lucille, and walked out with a standing ovation – and a new destiny.