The Best Rock Guitarists Who Ever Lived

B.B. King

B.B. King is the definition of a genius success story. Born on a cotton plantation, his family made very little money in sharecropping. King showed an early interest in music and bought his first guitar at the age of 12 for $15. Years later, he was touring the country extensively, playing on a multitude of radio shows, and still playing juke joint and church gigs like how he started. King innovated the world of blues guitar both tonally and technically.

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The More You Know

  • Elvis recorded over 600 songs and he didn’t a single one of them.
  • Alice Cooper is an avid golfer and credits the sport to "saving him from his demons".
  • Layne Staley asked Jerry Cantrell to play in a funk band and agreed to sing in Cantrell’s band in exchange. The funk band didn’t last but Cantrell’s band became Alice in Chains.
  • Jimi Hendrix was kicked out of Little Richard’s band for stealing the spotlight and not wearing the uniform.
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