When you put on a classic rock song, there is one thing above all else that you expect: A guitar solo. Some long, thrilling, perhaps heavy-handed lead guitar riff that aims to summon the gods from ...

If there’s one reason why classic rock is beloved today, it likely has to do with the electric guitar. But to be even more specific, it probably has something to do with the electric lead guitar solo.

With that confusing but amusing musical direction, John Lennon led the Beatles into a daylong recording session that would bring to rock's forefront a musical element long absent from it: the ...

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, ...

The guitar solo; odds are, if you've been a music fan for long enough, you've seen and heard quite a few of them, ranging from some ragtag handfuls of notes to minutes of fret-jumping logistical ...

Everything about Nancy Wilson is cool – her guitar playing, songwriting, onstage moves, how she talks in interviews, her look. She probably eats breakfast cereal in a cool way, too. Being a star was ...