What Makes Guitar Heroes Tick

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
After winning an Academy Award with Al Gore for the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim turned his camera on three guitar heroes: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, The Edge from U2, and Jack White of the White Stripes. Guggenheim joins us to talk about the new film It Might Get Loud. And: director John Hughes died yesterday at 59. We look back at the influential soundtracks from his films. Later: Keith Miller talks about his journey from football fullback to operatic bass.

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