Video: At the Guitar Heroes Cover Shoot With Eddie Van Halen, B.B. King, John Mayer, Buddy Guy, Kirk Hammett and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

For the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" issue, Rolling Stone gathered together eight real life guitar heroes for a special double-sized cover. Click above for behind-the-scenes video from the cover shoot, including thoughts from the participants about being on the cover of the magazine and the greatness of their six string weapons.

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Song Stories

“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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