Guitarists

These two versions of Slowhand's pre-war 1939 acoustic were announced on his 80th birthday and celebrate the 30th anniversary of his first signature Martin

"Nothing came of it because Jeff was playing through his dodgy Marshall and didn’t like the sound,” he explains

Plenty of players have impressed Malmsteen, but it was a solo violin performance that would have the biggest influence on his lead style

"Paul and Gene weren’t the only lead singers in the band"

But guitarist was “disappointed” with the way Rush ended

The Darkness frontman says the late, great Johnny Nash dared to step outside of standard studio chord progressions and broadening a young Hawkins' musical vocabulary in the process

It seems she may have been honing her six-string skills in preparation

"If she didn’t like a voicing or a rhythmic pattern, she was great at communicating that," says Eliza Petrosyan

“Ivan Reitman, he came to us and said, ‘Hey, we want to use I Want a New Drug for our movie, Ghostbusters’”