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“It was a bit of a number for me to have to dare to tell George Harrison not to play guitar. It was like an insult”: Paul McCartney turned down George Harrison’s proposed guitar parts for Hey Jude

Even in the Beatles’ ever-ubiquitous catalog, Hey Jude occupies a special place. Written by Paul McCartney as a pick-me-up for John Lennon’s son, Julian, in the wake of his parents’ divorce, Hey Jude has racked up – in less than a decade on Spotify – over 600 million streams, and is ranked #13 on Billboard’s

“I never liked the idea of getting lessons from a guitar player, and thought it would be more useful to learn from someone who didn’t play the guitar at all”: Lo-fi guitar hero Mk.gee on why he decided to learn guitar basics from an upright bassist

From creating his own brand of expressive, jazz-infused yet genre-fluid guitar music to capturing the internet’s fascination with his Fender Jaguar baritone setup and his penchant for using a Tascam as a preamp, Mk.gee has truly managed to capture – and conquer – the zeitgeist. The elusive guitarist and multi-instrumentalist recently opened up about his