He played with the Yardbirds and worked as a London session player, adding guitar to recordings by the Who, the Kinks, Marianne Faithful and others, before founding one of the greatest rock bands ...

This name on our list of guitar players Eric Clapton said he loved the most is far from surprising. Many would call him the ...

Jimi Hendrix has been named the No. 1 greatest guitar player of all time ... and influenced the development of rock, metal, funk, and much more," Rolling Stone explains in its write-up of the ...

Said to be one of the greatest guitar players of all time, he rose to international fame as the guitarist for the rock band Queen. Billy Joel is an American singer and songwriter who has a net ...

Eric Clapton was always looking to push himself as a guitarist, but he considered this bluesy rocker to be in a class by himself. Read more here.

It has also been tipped by some as one of the greatest guitar albums of all ... there’s a rule,” he reflects. “A lot of rock guitar players don’t really listen to the rest of the band ...

As the guitarist in Booker T. & the M.G.’s, the house band for Stax Records, Steve Cropper was a key figure in shaping the ...

Eddie Van Halen, who has died at the age of 65, opened up dozens of new possibilities for the electric guitar with his ... popularise it for the rock audience. "And on top of that, I never really ...

John Foley worked in IT fixing computers, but he was probably best known in Omaha as a talented rock and roll-loving ... years later when the band’s guitar player quit, Foley stepped in.

For the final edition, on sale October 15th, Guitar Player will close its storied history with a cover story on former Led Zeppelin guitar master and rock and roll legend Jimmy Page, who recently ...