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Fans hailed Prince’s mind-blowing solo at the George Harrison tribute as one of the greatest guitar performances of all time.

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Few live performances have reached legendary status quite like Prince’s unforgettable guitar solo during the 2004 induction of George Harrison into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The all-star tribute performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps initially belonged to an incredible lineup of musicians. Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne shared lead vocals, while … Read more

Geddy Lee Names the Rush Song He Has Never Been Able to Like — And the Reason Will Surprise Every Rush Fan

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Geddy Lee is one of the most technically accomplished musicians in rock history — a bassist, vocalist, and keyboardist whose combination of skills on a single stage has been described by musicians across genres as among the most remarkable in live performance. He has spent fifty years inside Rush’s catalog with the specific intimacy of … Read more

“Total Eclipse of the Heart” singer Bonnie Tyler has died at the age of 75 after a courageous health battle. The legendary Welsh singer leaves behind an unforgettable legacy of timeless hits and one of music’s most iconic voices. Rest in peace, Bonnie.

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The music world is mourning the loss of legendary singer Bonnie Tyler, who has died at the age of 75. The Welsh icon passed away in a hospital in Portugal, with news of her death announced on July 9, 2026. Born Gaynor Hopkins in Skewen, Wales, near Swansea, Tyler rose from humble beginnings to become … Read more

The Songs Jimmy Page Never Wanted to Play Again — And the One He Said He Would Take to His Grave

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There is a specific kind of discomfort that the greatest artists experience about their most celebrated work — not the discomfort of failure, which is understandable and universal, but the discomfort of success that arrives at a cost, of songs that became so large and so permanent in the public consciousness that the person who … Read more

Five Songs Stevie Nicks Wrote That Lindsey Buckingham Said Were About Him — And He Was Right About Every Single One

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The romantic history between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham is the most extensively documented relationship in rock and roll — documented not through tabloid reporting or unauthorized biography but through the songs themselves, which constitute a running public account of two people who fell in love as teenagers in California, built one of the most … Read more

The Night Janis Joplin Called Jim Morrison at 2am — And What She Said That He Never Forgot

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In the summer of 1969, two of the most significant and most self-destructive figures in American rock music were living parallel lives in Los Angeles — not parallel in the sense of similar circumstances, because Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison had genuinely different relationships with their own pain and their own talent and their own … Read more

Six Rock Stars Who Said David Bowie Was the First Person Who Made Them Feel Like It Was Okay to Be Themselves

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David Bowie’s cultural significance extends well beyond his music in a way that few artists’ significance does — not because the music is insufficient, which it demonstrably is not, but because what he communicated through the music and through his public persona spoke to something in the people who heard it that was not primarily … Read more

The Betrayal That Almost Destroyed The Eagles Before Hotel California — And the Recording Session Don Henley Has Never Explained

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The recording of Hotel California in 1976 and 1977 has been described in the official accounts of the Eagles’ history with the standard narrative of creative triumph — the band at their peak, the material coming together, the production achieving the specific sound that the recording has become iconic for. The unofficial account, assembled from … Read more