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Mick Ralphs co-wrote some of the most iconic hits of the '70s, helped launch two cult bands—and died just months before ...
Starting in the early ’70s, a gang of extraordinarily ... dangerous and close to the streets. Punk guitarists didn’t just dislike progressive rock – they actively hated it.
After all, punk has many faces and sounds—but all these bands all owe a debt of gratitude to The Damned. The Damned are ...
Ian Hunter’s entertaining and illuminating book Diary of a Rock’n’Roll Star also helped spark the vintage guitar fire during the early ’70s through his accounts of roaming pawn shops ...
This wouldn’t be a decent list of epic guitar solos from the ‘70s without mentioning “Free ... to guitar solos that inspired generations of rock guitarists who followed in his footsteps.
The powerful guitar riffs became this decade's defining sound, shaping rock music's evolution. Here are the 4 riffs of that iconic era. No one can forget this iconic track of the 70s that became ...
The '70s offered plenty of guilty pleasures ... There is something inherently cliche about a rock and roll song whose sole purpose is to proclaim how cool it is to rock and roll.
The hallmarks of mainstream ’70s rock — long guitar solos, bushy sideburns — were out. Synthesizers, drum machines and stylized, eye-popping music videos were in. In most tellings of pop ...
It revolutionised rock and pop music after being introduced ... “I own around a hundred guitars, and I’d say 65 to 70 per cent of them are Strats,” he says, sitting in his office in a ...