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[[Newly added articlesFile:Ahpress.jpg|right|250px]]There are roughly 100 stories here that feature Allan, either as a band member or a solo artist. The majority of features are from guitar magazines, and so they tend to have a technical slant to them. Allan's first proper solo feature was in 1974, but the bulk of the stories are from the 80s and onwards, after Allan went solo. You don't have to read to many of these stories before the same kinds of things come up: Allan would get asked the same questions a lot, particularly in terms of technique and gear. Allan would often talk about his current album, so there's variety in those terms. Many of the stories are reasonably well done, but a few of the interviews go much deeper than the rest. Tom Mulhern's [[Allan Holdsworth (Guitar Player 1982)]] is one, Neville Marten's [[Castles Made Of Sand (Guitarist 1987)]] is another. Matt Resnicoff probably wrote the two best stories ever on Allan, the companion pieces [[The Unreachable Star (Guitar World 1989)]] and [[Allan Holdsworth’s Untold Secrets + Worthy Quotes (Guitar Player 1990)]]. [[Mike Pachelli Show (video transcript 1991)]] goes to some unusual places, while [[The Reluctant Guitarist (Jazz Journal 1992)]] tells a lot about where Allan came from, in particular his relationship with his father. Anil Prasad's [[Creating Imaginary Backdrops (Innerviews 1993)]] is a nice non-guitar-centric interview, while [[Allan Holdsworth: An interview (Atavachron 1994)]] shows Allan in a more informal conversation with his friends, led by Chris Hoard. Neville Marten captures "The Sixteen Men Of Tain" era well in [[Whisky Galore (Guitarist 2000)]], while there's a more retrospective slant to Barry Cleveland's [[The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever (Guitar Player 2008)]]. Those alone should provide many hours of reading.
==The articles==
'''Note on languages''': Many articles have appeared in other languages such as German, French, Spanish and Italian. Most of these are offered here in the original language, as well as in a machine translation. Some of these translations are listed here, while for others you will need to click through the foreign language version. I'll try to make a consistent system eventually. But the important thing to note is that while the translations generally seem to maintain their original meaning, they are not verbatim quotes by Allan, and so they must not be read literally. In October 2023, I added ChatGPT 3.5 translations of a few articles. ChatGPT generally does a better job of translating guitar and music related interviews than Google Translate, as far as I can tell.
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|''[[Allan Holdsworth (Melody Maker 1975)]]''
|Uncredited
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|Boston Phenix
|13 July 1976
|''[[A Disturbingly Normal Genius (Boston Phenix 1976)]]''
|Michael Bloom
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|Guitar magazine
|Hugh Fielder
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|UnknownInternational Musician
|1 January 1978
|''[[Any Key In The U.K. (Unknown publication 1978)]]''
|''[[IMRW 1982]]''
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|Yamaha Promotional
|1 December 1982
|''[[Yamaha 1982]]''
|Uncredited
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|31 December 1982
|''[[Unpublished piece by David Ashcraft (1982)]]''
|David Ashcraft
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|BAM
|''[[A Different kind of Guitar Hero (BAM 1983)]]''
|Dave Zimmer
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|The Michigan Daily
|1 September 1983
|''[[A chat with Holdsworth (Michigan Daily 1983)]]''
|Jay Dorrance
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|Music UK
|''[[The Innocent Abroad (Musician 1984)]]''
|Jock Baird
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|Guitar Player
|1 January 1984
|''[[Reflections On The Road (Guitar Player 1984)]]''
|Jeff Berlin
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|Guitar Player
|''[[HUMBLE GUITAR MASTER ALLAN HOLDSWORTH ALWAYS STRUGGLES TO PAY THE RENT]]''
|Steve Newton
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|Creem
|1 August 1986
|''[[His Weight, In Gold (Creem 1986)]]''
|Dan Hedges
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|Guitar World
|Chitarre
|1 September 1987
|''[[Chitarre 1987]]''
|Unknown
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|''[[Avantgarde Figur (Musiker 1988)]]'' (Autotranslated)
|Andreas Vahsen
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|The Telegraph
|29 January 1988
|''[[British guitarist says being musician does not pay bills (Telegraph 1988)]]''
|Larry Nager
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|Boston Sound Report
|''[[The Reluctant Guitarist (Jazz Journal 1992)]]''
|Mark Gilbert
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|The Daily Gazette
|20 September 1992
|''[[Fastest guitarist to play at Charity's (Daily Gazette 1992)]]''
|Michael Hochanadel
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|Guitar World
|''[[European Musician 1995]]''
|Lothar Trampert
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|The Age
|15 May 1995
|''[[The Age (1995)]]''
|Leon Gettler
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|Guitarist
|Chitarre
|1 November 1996
|''[[Intervista A Allan Holdsworth (Chitarre 1996)]]''***
|Mauro Salvatori
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|Alan Di Perna
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|Gitarre Und Basse& Bass
|1 June 1997
|''[[Allan Holdsworth (Gitarre Und Basse 1997)]]''
|''[[Mistrzowie Gitary (Gitara i Bas 1998)]]''
|Piotr Nowicki
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|Guitar Player
|1 April 1998
|''[[Guitar Player (1998)]]''
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|Guitar and Guitar Shop (Cherry Lane Music)''
|Guitarra Total
|1 April 2000
|''[[Guitarra De Vanguardia (2000)]]|''***
|Mariano Steimberg/Esteve Ripoll
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|''[[Allan Holdsworth in exclusive LMS interview (tlms.co.uk 2000)]]''
|Merlin Rhys Jones
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|World Music
|1 April 2000
|''[[Culto a la guitarra (World Music 2000)]]''
|Jordi Planas
|-
|Chitarre
|Gitarre & Bass
|1 May 2000
|''Allan Holdsworth[[Gitarre & Bass (2000)]]''
|Lothar Trampert
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|''[[A Conversation With Allan Holdsworth (Abstract Logix 2005)]]''
|Bill Milkowski
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|Vintage Guitar
|1 December 2005
|''[[Fretprints Column (Vintage Guitar 2005)]]''
|Wolf Marshall
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|JazzHouston
|''[[Harnessing momentum (Innerviews 2008)]]''
|Anil Prasad
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|Montreal Gazette
|1 September 2009
|''[[Montreal Gazette (2009)]]''
|Bernard Perusse
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|jazztimes.com
|1 Januar January 2010
|''[[Once Upon a Lifetime (Jazz Times 2010)]]'' [https://jazztimes.com/features/allan-holdsworth-once-upon-a-lifetime/ (Direct link)]
|Bill Milkowski
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|Buffalo News
|1 September 2010
|''[[Buffalo News (2010)]]''
|Jeff Miers
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|Gitarre & Bass
|1 November 2010
|''Holdsworth Legende[[Gitarre & Bass (2010)]]''
|Angela Ballhorn
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==Other==
[[A Repair Shop Sparked a Revolution: The Charvel/Jackson Story (Reverb 2021)]]
[[Unpublished piece by David Ashcraft (1982)]]
[[Magazines in the Internet Archive]]
==Do you have a copy of these?==
https://www.beatchapter.com/sound-international-feb-1981-the-beat-allan-holdsworth-hofner-guitar-history-10084-p.asp
https://www.beatchapter.com/beat-instrumental-magazine-august-1979-status-quo-only-ones-allan-holdsworth-jim-burns-wild-horses-10074-p.asp
https://www.beatchapter.com/international-musician--recording-world-magazine-june-1978-carmine-appice-glyn-johns-nazareth-12424-p.asp
[[Category:Press]]
