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The electric guitar Fender celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. This instrument, with its instantly recognizable shape, is part of rock history. All the greatest have used it on songs that have become legendary.
They sounded the greatest songs in the history of rock. Virtuoso guitarists have made it their accomplice. They set the tone for the most legendary solos. For 75 years, guitars Fender tell part of the rock n’roll. In 1947, Leo Fender buys new sheds to diversify his small business in Arizona (United States). It is there that after the amps, will be born electric guitars of a new kind, very different from the usual classical guitars with hollow body.
The solid body was born, and it will become the darling of American guitarists. “Solid body, that means it’s a single piece of wood”says Julien Bitounmusician, co-author of “Fender 75 years” (Grund). On their sleeves, rock bands proudly display their models telecaster Where Stratocasterto make European musicians jealous for whom they are still unavailable. The Fender and their 75 years of music never seem so young as under the fingers of the greats rockers.