With their iconic third album, Blondie mixed up disco, the retro sound of 50s girl groups and their angular new-wave punk ethos to build songs which would elevate the New York outfit to a position of globally acknowledged importance, without sacrificing their characteristic edge.
With Peter Jackson’s Get Back promising to shed new light on the last days of The Beatles, here are 10 other rock docs that offer to inform and entertain guitarists that you can stream while you wait.
Prince’s 1984 triumph decimated genre barriers with a diverse mixture of instrumental flavours, it would also verify its creator’s position among the most gifted guitar soloists of all time.
The magnum opus of a brilliant, but tormented mind. The Holy Bible found the Manics re-tooled from nimble glam rock exhibitionists to harbingers of looming apocalypse.
The Fab Four’s impact on guitar music is hard to overstate, but what are their best moments of on-record guitar brilliance? We’ve picked out our top 20.
Heralding the return of one of music’s most potent creative forces, The Next Day granted David Bowie’s guitarists a vast field on which to build vivid colours of powerful and serene guitar.
Johnny Marr’s unparalleled ability for weaving some of the most emotionally-charged, melodically sumptuous guitar parts in the history of pop continues to captivate.
A game-changing debut built from the embers of grief, Funeral channelled personal loss into some of the most deliriously euphoric anthems of the 2000s.
Pavement’s pointedly shabby debut was an aural mess of dishevelled guitar noise, balanced by infectious hooks and a homemade aesthetic which set the indie-rock mould.
