For those who missed the hair-metal heyday, Guns N’ Roses exploded onto the scene in 1985. Formed in Los Angeles by frontman ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of ...

Eddie Van Halen, the pioneering guitar player whose hard-rocking band emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles in the early 1970s to stand at the top of rock 'n' roll for a decade, ...

The 1980s produced quite a few guitar gods in rock music, but what about the underrated legends who haven’t really gotten their flowers in the decades since then? Let’s take a look at just four ...

Gary Numan wrote his biggest hit in a matter of minutes. "Cars" turned into one of the influential hits of its era.

Adams had a 1980s Gibson Les Paul during his career-defining Reckless era, which he managed to reunite with decades later ...

The ’80s were rock’s ultimate guitar decade. The shredding, fingerboard-tapping, dive-bombs and epic power-ballad solos. And most importantly, gargantuan riffs fans could air-guitar to. Many top ’80s ...

In 1981, Rush had the biggest selling album of their career with Moving Pictures. But if that decade began brightly, it soon ...

One of the best rock guitarists from his era is seated on a tour bus, peering into an iPad screen and waiting on me. As I connect via video call with Tracii Guns, he and his band L.A. Guns are out on ...

The Canadian songwriter extraordinaire on what he learned from Mutt Lange, how he got his long-sold Les Paul back, why he dug ...

Tracking Aerosmith's career trajectory from the beginning to the end of the '80s reveals one of the most remarkable comebacks in rock history. The Aerosmith of the late '80s was a different beast than ...

From Alex Lifeson to Peter Frampton, Mark Morton to Michael Schenker, we share the stories of famous guitarists' first guitars in their own words ...