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Play Guitar was a fortnightly partwork from DeAgostini which was launched in 1999 and ran for 39 issues

Each issue comes with a CD that takes you through the lessons printed in the magazine.
  • the "finished" piece including keyboards, bass and drums so that you hear the overall sound
  • the guitar part you'll be learning to play on your own
  • the backing track, minus the guitar part, so that you can play along and fill in the gaps.

Each magazine is split into 7 sections
  • Guitar hardware
  • Guitar essentials - key info such as tuning, reading music, understanding tablature & chord symbols etc.
  • Practice session - the skills to play rhythm including chord and strum patterns
  • Playing solo - solos, riffs, licks and scales
  • Songbook - discussion of the techniques and style of a particular artist
  • Guitar Greats - profiles of 2 great guitar players
  • Chord Chart

Issue 1 - Paul Weller & Nick McCabe / Songs:- Wild Wood (Paul Weller), Disco 2000 (Pulp), Change (Lightning Seeds), Atomic (Blondie)

Issue 2 - Johnny Greenwood & Graham Coxon / Songs:- I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles), Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins), One (Metallica), Local Boy In The Photograph (Stereophonics)

Issue 3 - John Squire & The Edge / The Riverboat Song (Ocean Colour Scene), Sit Down (James), Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi), Traditional Blues and Turnaround

Issue 4 - Noel Gallagher & Jimi Hendrix / Wonderwall (Oasis), Redemption Song (Bob Marley), Nice Guy Eddie (Sleeper), Lovefool (The Cardigans)

Issue 5 - James Dean Bradfield & Pete Townhend / Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton), Pretty Vacant (Sex Pistols), Connection (Elastica), She Makes My Nose Bleed (Mansun)

Issue 6 - PJ Harvey & Jimmy Page / Zombie (Cranberries), Beetlebum (Blur), Regret (New Order), Ain't That Enough (Teenage Fanclub)

Issue 7 - Kurt Cobain & Gaz Coombes / Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead), Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin), Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage), James Bond Theme

Issue 8 - Crispian Mills & Eric Clapton / This Is A Call (Foo Fighters), Richard III (Supergrass), Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash), Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple)

Issue 9 - Prince & Brian May / Come As You Are (Nirvana), One Of Us (Joan Osborne), To Bring You My Love (PJ Harvey), Weirdo (The Charlatans)

Issue 10 - Beck & Hank Marvin / The House of the Rising Sun (Animals), 78 Stone Womble (Gomez), The Man Who Sold The World (David Bowie), Weather With You (Crowded House)

Issue 11 - Neil Young & David Gilmour / When I Come Around (Green Day), I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges), I'll Be There For You (Rembrandts), Fly Away (Lenny Kravitz)

Issue 12 - Peter Buck & George Harrison / And She Was (Talking Heads), In The Name of the Father (Black Grape), Can't Stop This Thing We've Started (Bryan Adams), Pinball Wizard (The Who)

Issue 13 - Johnny Marr & Noel Gallagher / Rocks (Primal Scream), Say What You Want (Texas), I Get Around (Beach Boys), Ace of Spades (Motorhead)

Issue 14 - Andy Summers & Scotty Moore / Babies (Pulp), Filmstar (Suede), Come Back To What You Know (Embrace), Our House (Madness)

Issue 15 - Mick Jones & John Lee Hooker / Swallowed (Bush), Daytripper (Beatles), Schizophrenia (Sonic Youth), One Vision (Queen)

Issue 16 - Slash & Jeff Beck / Freak Scene (Dinosaur Jr), Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division), Brazen [Weep] (Skunk Anansie), Zig Zag Wanderer (Captain Beefheart)

Issue 17 - Chuck Berry & Nick Drake / Ironic (Alanis Morissette), Angel Interceptor (Ash), Paranoid Android (Radiohead), A Girl Like You (Edwyn Collins)

Issue 18 - Bob Marley & Eddie Van Halen / Buffalo Soldier (Bob Marley), Fools Gold (Stone Roses), Refugee (Tom Petty), Killer on the Loose (Thin Lizzy)

Issue 19 - Frank Zappa & Ritchie Blackmore / One To Another (Charlatans), Over You (Roxy Music), Fast Car (Tracy Chapman), Going Underground (The Jam)

Issue 20 - Angus Young & Roger McGuinn / Alright (Cast), Peaches (Stranglers), Waterloo Sunset (Kinks), Pretend Best Friend (Terrorvision)

Issue 21 - Marc Bolan & Thurston Moore / Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley), Rock Lobster (B-52s), Shady Lane (Pavement), Faith (George Michael)

Issue 22 - BB King & Robert Smith / There She Goes (The La's), Apache (Shadows), Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), Pale Blue Eyes (Velvet Underground)

Issue 23 - Keith Richards & Carlos Santana / Start Me Up (Rolling Stones), Breathe (Prodigy), Under The Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Peter Gunn Theme (Duane Eddy)

Issue 24 - Mark Knopfler & Robert Fripp / On and On (Longpigs), Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison), No Scrubs (TLC), Paranoid (Black Sabbath)

Issue 25 - Kelly Jones & Tom Verlaine / The Bartender & The Thief (Stereophonics), Spaceman (Babylon Zoo), Last Train To Clarksville (Monkees), Teenage Kicks (Undertones)

Issue 26 - Ry Cooder & Bo Diddly / That'll Be The Day (Buddy Holly), Sunshine of Your Love (Cream), Rotterdam (Beautiful South), What Difference Does It Make? (The Smiths)

Issue 27 - Sheryl Crow & Andres Segovia / There Goes The Neighborhood (Sheryl Crow), Making Plans For Nigel (XTC), Wicked Game (Chris Isaak), Pretty Fly [For A White Guy] (Offspring)

Issue 28 - John McLaughlin & Wilko Johnson / Staying Out For The Summer (Dodgy), [I Don't Want To Go To] Chelsea (Elvis Costello), La Bamba (Ritchie Valens), Something 4 The Weekend (Super Furry Animals)

Issue 29 - Billy Gibbons & Bernard Sumner / All Right Now (Free), Beat It (Michael Jackson), Every Morning (Sugar Ray), Freak On A Leash (Korn)

Issue 30 - Lou Reed & Jerry Garcia / Lump (Presidents of the USA), Cowboys From Hell (Pantera), Stompin' At The Savoy (Charlie Christian), The Fun Lovin' Criminal (Fun Lovin' Criminals)

Issue 31 - Fran Healy & Richard Thompson / Why Does It Always Rain On Me? (Travis), School's Out (Alice Cooper), Sex Machine (James Brown), You Don't Care About Us (Placebo)

Issue 32 - Buddy Guy & Django Reinhardt / Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash), Money For Nothing (Dire Straits), Closing Time (Semisonic), Come Together (Spiritualized)

Issue 33 - Mick Ronson & Dick Dale / Hanging on the Telephone (Blondie), My Own Worst Enemy (Lit), The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone), Silver Machine (Hawkwind)

Issue 34 - Adam Devlin & Duane Eddy / Marblehead Johnson (Bluetones), Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (Ian Dury), Fields of Gold (Sting), The Passenger (Iggy Pop)

Issue 35 - George Benson & Kevin Shields / Message in a Bottle (Police), Soul Man (Sam and Dave), Samba Pa Ti (Santana), Save Tonight (Eagle-Eye Cherry)
Issue 36 - Billy Corgan & Robert Johnson / Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell), Easy (Commodores), Street Spirit [Fade Out] (Radiohead), Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer)

Issue 37 - Tony Iommi & Chet Atkins / Place Your Hands (Reef), By Your Side (Black Crows), Spanish Romance (Anon.), Kings of the Wild Frontier (Adam and the Ants)

Issue 38 - Graham Coxon & Muddy Waters / There's No Other Way (Blur), Love is the Law (The Seahorses), Suspicious Minds (Elvis Presley), Livin' La Vida Loca (Ricky Martin)

Issue 39 - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Robbie Robertson / Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen), Star of Nepal (Simon Breed and the Birthmarks), Listen To The Music (Doobie Brothers), Layla (Derek and the Dominoes) - Also includes index for the series