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Can I introduce you please to a lump of cheddar cheese? Knit one! Pearl one! Drop one! Curl one! Yes, these are in fact lyrics to a song that very nearly reached number one in the UK charts back in 1998. They are from the England World Cup song, Vindaloo by Fat Les. Granted, it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but when you look at some of the biggest songs ever written, you start to see some of the lyrics were extremely obscure and weird. And when you look deeper into it you can find that most of the obscurest lyrics were written around[...]

Hello everybody and welcome to a new feature within the blog... Guitar Duel. This is going to be a weekly feature where I pit two legendary guitarists against each other and you lot have to vote on who you think is the better guitarist. I must admit some of these choices will be hard to bare, almost like choosing who is the favourite out of your Mother or your Father. So grit your teeth and get ready to make some agonising but amazing choices. Right, lets get on with the first in the series. This weeks Guitar Duel is going to be[...]

Hello everyone, hope you had a fantastic weekend. Mine was ok, felt a bit ill Saturday though so didn't do too much. Anyway lets get back into a new week with another Hero Worship post. And this week's Hero comes in the form of the Legendary George Harrison. The lead guitarist in the Beatles and a great solo artist aswell. Great friends with legends such as Clapton, even after Eric had an affair with George's missus. What Total Guitar said: You know him by his: Beautifully constructed 'song within a song' solos, exquisite slide[...]

Hello everyone. Hope you are all dandy. Welcome to another post in the series of riff of the week. This weeks riff is a real beauty. It is one of the most instantly recognisable riffs ever invented, and shows why Keith Richards was voted 10th best guitarists of all time in Rolling Stone magazines greatest guitarists chart. It signified a breakthrough for the Stones as it was their first record to hit number 1 in both the UK and the US. The song that I am talking about, of course, is (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Apparently it[...]

Alright Everyone, Good week so far? I thought I would continue my poll on the Greatest Guitarist of each decade and this weeks is about the 60's. Last weeks 50's winner was Les Paul, and thanks for all of you that voted. Here is this weeks poll. Who was the greatest 1960's Guitarist? Ok, Ok I know that this weeks poll may be a bit obvious and I very much think that one man is going to run away with it. But I would still like to hear your thoughts as there may be a few of you out there that think differently. Also this was such a great[...]