Life was pretty basic back in 1954. Your TV, if you were lucky enough to have one, would have been made from wood or Bakelite and have a nine-inch screen with black and white pictures. And only one ...

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Imagine the embarrassment of a talented guitarist losing out in a shredding battle with someone who can't play a note. Since the launch of games like Rock Band, such things can and do happen. Now ...

The Fender Stratocaster is ubiquitous in the rock guitar world for a reason. The Strat has been an American icon since the 1950s, and it's the instrument of choice for countless rock n' roll pioneers ...

Its seductive looks and futuristic design have endeared the Fender Stratocaster to generations of guitarists. As an icon of rock turns 60, Jonathan Glancey looks back. Old rockers wrinkle as they ...

Ed has kitted his Strat out with an intriguing combo of pickups: a Seymour Duncan JB Jr humbucker in the bridge, Texas Special single coil in the middle and Fernandes Sustainer in the neck, which is ...

Eddie Van Halen is the guitarist most people think of when the word ‘Frankenstein’ is uttered in guitar circles, but Rory Gallagher had one of his own, and it’s just sold at auction for $50K. A Dave ...

The auction of Rory Gallagher’s iconic, heavily relic’d Strat was a story that had the guitar world rapt this year. But while a campaign to keep what was the first Fender Strat to reach Irish shores ...