The hit song is known for another riff—then the guitar comes out of nowhere.

Chuck Berry is on the short list of the greatest guitarists to ever play and helped inspire a generation of rock and roll.

A 2004 rock hit was named among the greatest guitar solos of all time and it was inspired by a Beatles classic.

While people love guitar solos, these are three they forget. These are three forgotten guitar solos from the 1970s that still ...

He might be the most underrated guitarist of his generation, but Neil Young has had a powerful impact on rock music. One of my favorite albums of Young's over the years is "Rust Never Sleeps," which ...

I first heard Brian Eno’s surrealist masterpiece “Baby’s on Fire” as an actual baby, more or less: it was one of my parents’ household staples. For years I moved through life under the very confident ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

We often think of the Beatles in terms of the subsequent music they helped inspire, but before they were the Fab Four, they were being blown away and inspired by music themselves—like the American ...

A 1971 track by one of the most iconic bands in all of music history has been celebrated by guitarists for featuring the greatest guitar solo of all time. Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' was No. 1 ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

I remember hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time. I was around 10, and it was before I started playing guitar, and he blew my hair back. I thought: What is this fire, and how can I lunge into it?

The tune is considered one of this band's most popular songs.