Derek forbes and simple minds

IN A 1992 Guitar World feature that celebrated the release of Spinal Tap’s reunion album, Break Like the Wind, it was reported that lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel had been, at some point during the band’

BELOW, BRAD GILLIS remembers the day Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne asked him to fill Randy Rhoads’ spot in Ozzy’s band. What are your memories of first meeting Ozzy? Two weeks after the tragic death of Ran

Boy bands reunited… but were they back for good?

ON JUNE 23, the guitar world lost a true legend — Mick Ralphs of Bad Company and Mott the Hoople fame. He was 81. Besides being an amazing songwriter, Ralphs was a criminally underrated blues/rock gui

DURING THE LAST week of November 1963, the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was released in the United Kingdom. That same week, a young Brit named Laurence Juber started playing guitar. It wouldn’t

We look back on the adventures of the bus-based magnificent seven, The Double Deckers , which first aired 55 years ago…