Sixty years of the Fender Telecaster

Legendary guitarists, including Andy Summers and Graham Coxon, on why they love the iconic guitarSixty years ago, in the summer of 1950, a small Californian business was preparing to introduce the world to a new musical invention. The Fender Electrical Instrument Company was based in Santa Ana, 30 miles south of Los Angeles, and it had already come up with the Esquire, an electric guitar that broke with convention by being built from a solid piece of wood. Now, 41-year-old Leo Fender had radical...

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