The greatest guitar albums of the '80s: the rise of the next-gen guitar hero

We examine the forward-thinking era that gave us monster records from Slash, Metallica and Randy Rhoads – and Joe Satriani tells us what made Van Halen's 1984 such a game-changer for guitarists

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