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Great Guitar Riffs at the BBC

Compilation featuring Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Cream, AC/DC, The Smiths, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, The Shadows, The Yardbirds, Pixies and The Stone Roses.

Compilation of BBC performances featuring some of the best axe men and women in rock 'n' roll, from Hendrix to The Kinks, Cream to AC/DC, The Smiths to Rage Against the Machine and Radiohead to Foo Fighters. Whether it is The Shadows playing FBI on Crackerjack, Jeff Beck with The Yardbirds, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream's Sunshine of Your Love from their final gig, Pixies on the Late Show, AC/DC on Top of the Pops or Fools Gold from The Stone Roses, this compilation is a celebration of rock 'n' roll guitar complete with riffs, fingerstylin', wah-wah pedals and Marshall amps.

58 minutes

Last on

Fri 29 Oct 202122:00
BBC Four

Music Played

  • The Shadows

    F.B.I

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

  • The Rolling Stones

    The Last Time

  • The Yardbirds

    Over, Under, Sideways, Down

  • Cream

    Sunshine Of Your Love

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Voodoo Chile

  • Steppenwolf

    Born to be Wild

  • Peter Frampton

    Show Me The Way

  • AC/DC

    Rock N Roll Damnation

  • The Smiths

    Hand in Glove

  • Jimi Hendrix

    Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

  • Pixies

    Monkey Gone to Heaven

  • Rage Against the Machine

    Bullet In The Head

  • Radiohead

    Paranoid Android

  • Kaki King

    Playing with Pink Noise

  • Foo Fighters

    All My Life

Credit

ProducerDione Newton

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