Back in July, it was announced that Rory Gallagher's guitar gear would, three decades after the blues-rock titan's untimely ...

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 ...

Leading musicians are said to be planning bids in an auction for Rory Gallagher’s guitars. Among the items up for grabs is his Fender Stratocaster, which could fetch up to £1m.

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 ...

He also sold instruments, such as the lap steel guitar. Eventually, Fender began making guitars of his own and in 1943 started developing a concept for a “direct string pickup” that made sound ...

While people could bid online for most items in the collection, this was not allowed in the case of the highly sought-after Fender Stratocaster. Other items up for sale at the auction on Thursday ...

The new series features a Fender Stratocaster, Stratocaster HSS, Telecaster, Meteora, Jazz Bass, Jazz Bass V, Meteora Bass, and Precision Bass with upgraded features including a quartersawn maple ...

Add to all that a rich Texas Tea paint job that sparkles like the fizz of Coca-Cola under lights, an anodized aluminum pickguard ... 70th Anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster.

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Gallagher, widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, bought the 1961 Fender Stratocaster for £ ... very first time ever prior to the sale on Thursday. Head of Bonhams Popular ...

the famous Fender Stratocaster was sold for a hammer price of £700,000 (€841,000) in London on Thursday evening. The iconic guitar was part of a sale of almost 100 lots in the Rory Gallagher ...

Now, the pearl of the lot, Gallagher's iconic, well-worn 1961 Fender Stratocaster, has sold for a tidy sum of £889,400, which equates to roughly $1.16 million. This makes the Strat – cited by ...