Fender looks set to enter new territory after a prototype seven-string Stratocaster has been unveiled amid talks of “a bigger vision” for the guitar. Through the success of djent and ...

Few at the time would have thought that the Fender Stratocaster would be the final word in electric guitar design. Previously, guitars had been dumpy, cumbersome instruments, but the Stratocaster ...

The SG he owned then was only his backup. Instead, he planned on playing his heavily modified Fender Stratocaster – a guitar that, at the time, he viewed as his main instrument, and one he ...

In 1954, a guitar maker called Leo Fender introduced his second electric guitar, a companion to his 1950 Telecaster (originally Broadcaster). The new Stratocaster, drawn up with the help of musician ...

John Frusciante has played a number of guitars over the years, but he's by far most synonymous with a Fender Stratocaster.

Gilmour's tech, Phil Taylor, provides GW with an exhaustive list of the guitar gear used to record the prog icon's first solo ...

Irish rock and blues musician Rory Gallagher’s signature Fender Stratocaster guitar will be donated to the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) after it was sold for £700,000 (approximately € ...

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The final home for Rory Gallagher's €1m signature Fender Stratocaster guitar will be Cork. That is according MD of MCD, Denis Desmond who was one of the people instrumental in purchasing the ...

As Rory Gallagher’s famous Fender Stratocaster reaches the end of another chapter in its storied life, we get up close and personal with the iconic instrument Bought in 1963 at Crowley’s music ...

A Fender Stratocaster guitar which belonged to rock and blues musician Rory Gallagher is to be donated to the National Museum of Ireland (NMI) after it sold at auction in London. The guitar ...