Guitarists

“After the third chorus, he’s singing ‘in the purple…’ and then he pointed at me, which was the cue to take the solo," says guitarist Donna Grantis

Toto man shared stage with both Harrison and Eddie Van Halen

Bonamassa played the entire track with an Ovation acoustic through an overdriven amp

Satch says Hendrix was never played anything that sounded like an exercise – he “just sounded like music”

Low got the Teisco Spectrum V bug after seeing Ry Cooder with one. Eddie Van Halen loved them too. Clapton? Not so much...

The former King Crimson guitarist was operated on by the surgeon responsible for the first successful human hand transplant in America

And there’s a happy ending. Thorn and Vai are now band members in SatchVai Band, alongside Joe Satriani

And he remembers the chemistry he had with singer Steve Perry

“I could never see the connection with the Verve, really," says McCabe. "I had nothing against Britpop at all and there was some amazing music that came out of it, but it wasn’t the sound that we wanted to make"

“I stepped out of my comfort zone with the funky guitar!”