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On October 25, 2005, Charo — the great Spanish singer, actress and (most importantly) flamenco guitarist — dropped by the GWoffices in NYC. Besides pointing to our Jimmy Page-fronted May 2005 issue and taking photos with a few editors, including Jimmy Brown [inset], Charo was in town promoting her 2005 album, Charo and Guitar (which, BTW, features a killer version of “Malagueña”). As part of the press proceedings, Paul Riario interviewed Charo for the February 2006 issue of Guitar World Acoustic. “One thing she said that really stuck with me was that she was a student of Andrés Segovia in her formative years,” Riario says today. “As her celebrity status grew, it would sometimes overshadow her incredible talent as a flamenco guitarist. She told me about the time she was shopping in Bloomingdales in NYC and noticed that Segovia was in the same store. While all the clerks were fawning over her, she kept pointing out to them that that man — Segovia — was the most important musician in the world. To her, he was the celebrity. She said she called out to him to come talk to her, but for unknown reasons he ignored her. She speculated that her popularity at the time might’ve made him feel uncomfortable to be seen with her. This incident broke her heart because she had so much respect for him.” — DF
Not jumping for joy over Green Day...
Just got my March [2024] issue and to my surprise, of all the hundreds of guitar players, you chose to put Mr. American Idiot himself on your cover, only days after he insulted half of the country because of his political views!
He and every other entertainer and athlete can vote for whoever they want and join someone’s campaign or hand out flyers, but when they are on stage or on the field they should leave their politics at home and entertain!
Does this idiot think he is smarter or better informed than us because he can write catchy songs? When you put a divisive
