Henry Yates

Henry Yates

Henry Yates is a freelance journalist who has written about music for titles including The Guardian, Telegraph, NME, Classic Rock, Guitarist, Total Guitar and Metal Hammer. He is the author of Walter Trout's official biography, Rescued From Reality, a talking head on Times Radio and an interviewer who has spoken to Brian May, Jimmy Page, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie Wood, Dave Grohl and many more. As a guitarist with three decades' experience, he mostly plays a Fender Telecaster and Gibson Les Paul.

Latest articles by Henry Yates

Peter Frampton

Peter Frampton: "I might not be playing live in a couple of years, but I’m going to be battling on and recording... I feel positive about the future"

By Henry Yates published

The guitar icon looks back at the triumphs and knocks of his career, into the eyes of his illness, and onto the music still to come...

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Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell: "We were the second generation. You’d already had Beck, Clapton, Page, Green. It was up to us to carry the torch"

By Henry Yates published

Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell on Jamaican weed, redeeming the Flying V, and how Peter Green became his guitar hero…

Guitarists
Sonny Landreth: “I once played slide with motorcycle handlebars!”

Sonny Landreth: “I once played slide with motorcycle handlebars!”

By Henry Yates published

The South's greatest slide man tells us about the thrill of improv, his battle with tendonitis and his "three-day limit"

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Inside Dweezil Zappa's mission impossible: performing his father's Hot Rats album live

By Henry Yates published

A half-century after the album’s original release, Zappa embarked on the ultimate labour of love when his Zappa Plays Zappa project planned to tour Hot Rats

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