Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, O2 Arena

British guitar legends reunite to rock the O2

Along with the compact disc and record company profits, the Guitar Hero has become virtually extinct in the modern era. Thus, finding two gilt-edged specimens of this increasingly scarce breed sharing a stage is gold dust indeed. Both of them have been drenched in accolades, Jeff Beck having been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice and Eric Clapton three times.

theartsdesk Q&A: Guitarist Wilko Johnson

EDITOR'S PICK: THEARTSDESK Q&A WITH WILKO JOHNSON This week the terminally ill guitarist will play his last ever gigs. We revisit a classic interview

Bard of Canvey Island on punk, loss and astronomy

In Oil City Confidential, Julien Temple’s exhilarating new documentary on Dr Feelgood, the first thing you’ll see is the spidery, alien movements of the band’s guitarist Wilko Johnson, as he looks out over their Essex heartland, Canvey Island. The film is a sort of prequel to Temple’s Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, digging into the early 1970s pub rock scene the Feelgoods ruled with their hard, sharp R’n’B before punk, lessons learned, stole the stage.