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Donovan performs live on stage at the Seventh National Jazz and Blues Festival at Windsor racecourse in Berkshire on 13th August 1967.
Donovan on his psychedelic breakthrough aided by heartbreak, LSD and Jimmy Page

By Elizabeth Swann Last updated

The folk troubadour explains how a pair of London session pros and a white Telecaster helped create one of rock’s earliest psychedelic albums

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David Lindley, Italy, 1983.
Win tickets to an all-star tribute to David Lindley led by Papa Mali and Wally Ingram in New Orleans

By Jimmy Leslie Published

Guitar Player Presents an all-star cast at Papa Mali’s New Orleans birthday bash. It’s a special Jazz Fest after party at Chickie Wah Wah on Sunday, May 3

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Bruce Springsteen, Tony Shanahan and Patti Smith perform at the 2026 American Music Honors
Bruce Springsteen celebrates the Doors, the E Street Band, Patti Smith and others at the American Music Honors

By Robert Dye Published

Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt and Doors drummer John Densmore perform “Light My Fire” as others are honored at the Springsteen Center’s annual event

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Freddie Mercury of Queen, 1982 Tour at the Various Locations in Oakland, California
“He said ‘I’ll f***ing do it, darling!’” Brian May on Freddie Mercury’s most defiant recording

By Elizabeth Swann Last updated

May recalls how the dying singer downed a vodka and delivered one of the greatest vocals of his life 

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Samantha Fish performs live at Sweden Rock Festival on June 05, 2025 in Norje, Sweden.
Samantha Fish doesn’t like her first live album — that’s why she did it right with her latest, ‘Paper Doll Live’

By Gary Graff Published

The blues-rock guitarist’s latest release builds on the Grammy Award–nominated success of her 2025 studio album

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Freddie Mercury (left) and Brian May of Queen perform live at The Oakland Coliseum in 1977 in Oakland, California.
Brian May on the chart-topping Queen hit Freddie Mercury composed while getting ready one morning

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

John Lennon said the song inspired his return to the studio in 1980 for his final album, ‘Double Fantasy’

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Tom Petty performs circa 1985 in Los Angeles, California.
“I thought it was just a little bit too simple.” Tom Petty almost gave away his biggest hit — five years after he wrote it

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

It took a persistent producer and a blunt comment from a studio assistant to convince him to dust off the gem and claim it for the Heartbreakers

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Sheryl Crow performing on the stage in February, 1997
“I was feeling like I had so much s*** to hurl at the tape.” How Sheryl Crow broke up her hit-making band with just two words

By Elizabeth Swann Published

A remark during a David Letterman interview ignited tensions with the musicians who helped create one of her earliest career-defining tracks.

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UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: USA Photo of Bruce SPRINGSTEEN, performing live onstage on Born In The USA tour
Bruce Springsteen hated Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light,” says singer Chris Thompson

By Andrew Daly Published

The guitarist recalls the tape-machine glitch that created rock’s most infamous misheard lyric — and the awkward dinner where he asked Springsteen what he thought.

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Pete Townshend of The Who performs during Desert Trip at The Empire Polo Club on October 16, 2016 in Indio, California.
“You might be wrong.” Roger Daltrey said the record business Is “a joke.” Now Pete Townshend is talking about making another Who album

By Elizabeth Swann Published

The guitarist says the band may still record again — and he has up to 450 unfinished pieces of music to start with

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