Hotel California” sounds inevitable now. In 1976, its co-writer thought releasing a six-minute song with a one-minute intro ...

More than 50 years after its release, the landmark recording continues adding remarkable achievements to its legacy.

Bill Haley & His Comets 1954 single "Rock Around The Clock" was not the first rock’n’roll record – it wasn’t even Bill Haley’s first rock’n’roll record – but it was the first to go to number 1 in the ...

The 1970s produced some of the most iconic guitar-driven music in history thanks to rock gods like Jimi Hendrix, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck. Now, a powerful performance from one ...

Rolling Stone ranked Prince’s "Purple Rain" and Hendrix’s "Machine Gun" as top guitar solos. Rolling Stone praised "Machine Gun" as "the most ambitious, raw...expression of his musical genius." ...

A George Harrison and Beatles classic features one of the greatest guitar solos, per Guitar World. Rolling Stone: “He defined the guitar’s place at the heart of pop music.” Harrison inspired musicians ...

When music enthusiasts look back at the definitive sonic explosion of the 1970s, their minds instantly drift to the massive arena-rock guitar solos and heavy drum beats that dominated the airwaves.

Every great road trip needs a song that raises your pulse, and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” still hits like open road and a full tank. Thirty-nine years after Appetite for Destruction arrived, one guitar ...

Few effects in the history of rock guitar are as instantly recognizable — or divisive — as the wah pedal. You know it when you hear it. From aching, explosive bends to scratchy, percussive funk licks, ...