Guitar World Presents: Classic Rock

by Guitar World Magazine (Editor)

Pop music comes and goes with dull regularity, but classic rock is always there. Led Zeppelin. Jimi Hendrix. The Eagles. The Doors. Creedence. The Who. These are the bands and artists who changed the face of American rock and whose innovations remain fresh and exciting today. This book is an unprecedented collection of hard-hitting & informative interviews with the artists who made rock classic, including David Gilmour, Angus Young, Robby Krieger (The Doors), Don Felder (The Eagles), Pete Townshend, Aerosmith, Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd) and more. Includes a special tribute to Grateful Dead visionary Jerry Garcia, plus the stories behind rock's most famous songs, “Stairway to Heaven ” “Sweet Home Alabama ” “Ramblin' Man ” “Light My Fire ” “Hotel California ” and many others. 288 pages, 6″ x 9″

290 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Guitar World began publishing in July of 1980. It is published 13 times per year, with 12 monthly issues and one holiday issue. Each issue contains contains artist interviews and profiles, lessons, gear reviews, news, and tablature for guitar and bass of several songs.

Stanley Harris launched Guitar World magazine. He was replaced as Editor-in-Chief by Noë Goldwasser. Goldwasser left the magazine in 1988 and was replaced by Joseph Bosso. He was replaced for the June 1989 issues by Brad Tolinski. Tolinski left the magazine in April 2015, and was replaced by Jeff Kitts. Kitts was replaced by Damian Fanelli in June 2018.

Guitar World was published by Harris Publications (1980–2003), Future US, Inc. (2003–2012), NewBay Media (2012–2018), and then Future US, Inc. (2018–present).