Latest articles by Henry Yates
"When he felt the spirit, he was untouchable" – the story of Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton and Peter Green
Two legendary players. Two near-mythical Les Pauls. Two all-time-great blues albums and the greatest guitar handover in blues history
“That song, and Perfect Crime, we started writing when we were doing pre-production for Appetite" – Slash tells the story of Guns N' Roses's long-in-the-waiting classic You Could Be Mine
"You Could Be Mine was one of Izzy's riffs"
Blur's Graham Coxon: "The Coffee + TV chord shapes are just ridiculous"
"That’s another case of me making life very difficult for myself!”
The story of Black Shuck by The Darkness: “You wouldn’t exactly hear Bon Jovi writing about a church in Blythburgh, would you?”
To celebrate the 20th birthday of The Darkness's debut album Permission To Land, we dig into the mythology of its opener
The story of Randy Rhoads and Blizzard Of Ozz: "He was the best guy at overdubbing solos and tracking them that I’ve ever seen. I mean, he used to blow me away"
Classic interview: Remembering the genius of Randy Rhoads, 41 years after his tragic death
“Sometimes there’s songs that get put aside until it feels right” – the story of The White Stripes' Dead Leaves On The Dirty Ground
“Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground was written before we did our first album”
The story of Black Sabbath's Children Of The Grave: “If you listen to critics too much, you’ll lose your identity. We didn’t listen."
US Rock critic Lester Bangs once described the song as “naïve, simplistic, absolute doggerel"
Smoke On The Water at 50: The story of Deep Purple Mk II and the most famous guitar riff of all time
Between 1969 and 1973, Deep Purple’s MkII incarnation took on the world then tore itself apart. This is the story of the axe fights, smashed Strats, neo-classical solos and power struggles behind British rock’s most dysfunctional family
The making of Billie Eilish’s No Time To Die Bond theme: “Finneas came up with this chord progression, and we were just immediately like, ‘Oh!’”
“We had an intense amount of writer’s block as soon as we were called to action”
Classic interview: Slash on the story of Guns N' Roses's Use Your Illusion I & II
Looking back on a double barrel of rock 'n' roll, 30 years on
13 guitar hero Simpsons cameos
The show's yellowed-up more than a few legendary guitar heroes over the years
Round-up: 4 brutal 7-string electric guitars
Magnificent sevens from Ibanez, Schecter, LTD and Dean
10 reasons why guitar is the best instrument
Let's be clear, music is not a competition. But if it were, the guitar would win that competition
10 classic guitarist stage moves
From Pete Townshend's windmill to the Hendrix showboater and beyond!
10 types of guitar YouTuber and how to spot them
As YouTube turns 15 we offer a guide to the menagerie of guitar vloggers you can find on there
On JJ Cale: “He would buy a $100 guitar, then if he messed it up by drilling holes, it was okay. That was the cost of educating himself”
Cale's widow and bandmate Christine Lakeland reflects on his career and gear
John Petrucci: “The last thing you want to do is be complacent or just have ‘okay’ guitar parts and uninspired solos”
The DT man talks Distance Over Time, six-string evolution and guitar-player camaraderie
Robert Fripp: The Crimson King returns
On the countdown to three rare UK dates from his prog giants King Crimson, we look back at the seismic career of a “difficult” genius…
