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The most-learned guitar and piano songs of 2024 have been revealed
It turns out that The Eagles are still pretty popular, too…
![Session guitar ace Tim Pierce wears a ballcap and poses with a Powers Electric guitar [left]; a young Jon Bon Jovi rocks Super Rock 84 on Bon Jovi's first tour of Japan. His shirt is open. His hair is big. And he has a red Fender Stratocaster slung low by his hip.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hcRVrVWpPRxr5HrsXuDAxW-840-80.jpg.webp)
Tim Pierce on why Jon Bon Jovi was destined for superstardom, and how he nailed his Runaway solo
Sometimes rock history is settled by the fickle finger of fate. When Pierce was asked to help a young Jon Bon Jovi track his 1981 demoes, he ended up playing guitar on a Bon Jovi classic – a song that set its frontman on his way to the top
Haemorrhaged vocal cords force Sam Fender to scrap rest of UK tour, including Newcastle homecoming Christmas gig
It’s not the first time that the star has had to put his health first and been forced to let down fans
Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley on keeping the "character" of his Yamaha CP-70 and the ups and downs of being in a band
“Putting it simply, we’d sort of split up. We no longer felt we were on the same page musically and it looked highly unlikely that we’d ever be celebrating any kind of 20th anniversary”
“People saying, ‘Good album, good songs.’ That hadn't happened to me before”: David Bowie on his first classic album
“The whole album is so unusual,” says Bowie fan Boy George
Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan producer Dan Nigro on why solo artists have replaced bands
"People are just less inclined in general to get together to make music, cause you don’t have to," he argues
“I burst into tears... then there were hugs”: Art Garfunkel tells more about his reconciliation with Paul Simon
The old friends were set up by Simon’s son, Harper
Kylie Minogue’s collaboration with Prince had been lost for more than 30 years, but it’s just leaked
We finally get to hear a Prince demo version of the mythical Baby Doll, which Kylie wrote the lyrics for but never recorded
