TG PICKS...

ALEX TURNER

His lyrics may overshadow his playing, but the Arctic Monkey’s spikey guitar lines communicate his sentiments equally well.

NOEL GALLAGHER

Perhaps only George Harrison has recorded more solos you can whistle...

STONE GOSSARD & MIKE MCCREADY

With their ingenious twin guitar parts, the Pearl Jam pair achieve sounds their heroes like Hendrix couldn’t achieve alone.

JOHN SQUIRE

90s England didn’t produce many guitar heroes, but the Stone Rose was one in the tradition of Beck and Page.

BERNARD SUMNER

Thanks to his work with Joy Division and New Order, there isn’t an indie kid in the UK he didn’t influence.

KIM THAYIL & CHRIS CORNELL

The Soundgardeners set themselves apart with unique tunings and somehow making riffs in 5/4 and 7/4 sound catchy.

ROBERT SMITH

Goths, indie kids and alt-rockers try and fail to imitate him, partly because he purposely detunes his guitar by ear.

DAVE NAVARRO

The 90s alternative scene wasn’t big on solos, but Navarro kept the fire burning with Jane’s Addiction and RHCP.

PETER BUCK

The greatest non-liverpudlian ever to plug a Rickenbacker into an AC30, Buck’s parts have distinguished REM’S catalogue.

ADAM JONES

A stunningly creative and original part writer, Jones is known for his inventive use of delays and odd time signatures in Tool.

STEPHEN MALKMUS

If only rock critics had voted, Malkmus would have dominated this poll – his band Pavement defined 90s US indie.

JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD

The Manics’ frontman gave us rock n’ roll and low-slung Les Pauls when such things were thin on the ground.

BLACK FRANCIS & JOEY SANTIAGO

The Pixies basically invented a new chord progression, the mediant major, unheard in alt-rock before but now inescapable.