Many albums from 1980 forever changed rock guitar. Here’s a look at three differing styles that helped inspire the legends that followed them.

Tom Morello, 60, is an American guitarist and songwriter known for his innovative six-string work with rock bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, as well as his acoustic project The ...

Sam Fender cuts an incongruous figure in the modern pop landscape, a hugely popular young star playing an electric guitar and singing rocky pop ... drawing heavily (perhaps a little too slavishly) on ...

It is produced by Adam Granduciel of the American band The War on Drugs, a musician who, like Fender, is steeped in Bruce Springsteen ... with another crescendo of guitar, but quietly and ...

By Kate Mossman Sam Fender’s giant success could be explained, not just by his similarity to Bruce Springsteen, but by the fact that ... which is also the age he got his first guitar. When they later ...

A confident if predictable third album that showcases the North Shields native’s strengths – and his reluctance to push beyond them Six years after the explosive debut of Hypersonic Missiles, Sam ...

With its widescreen ambition, driving intensity and visceral lyrics, People Watching can’t fail to draw familiar comparisons to Fender’s “biggest hero”, Bruce Springsteen. A few years ago ...

Bernie Williams is known for his years with the New York Yankees, but music has been his main passion since leaving the game.

Fender’s hometown looks east over the North Sea. However, his music executes an about-turn. It soars westwards, towards the wide open land of Bruce Springsteen and The War on Drugs. His songs ...

Nostalgia’s Lie is another standout, inspired by the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Tom ... some classic rock concluding with a guitar solo. It sees Fender lean more into the political ...