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Rory Gallagher bought his now-legendary Strat – which recently sold for just over $1 million – from Crowley’s Music Store for £100 in 1963
The guitar had previously been available as a Fender Japan-exclusive release
Hendrix’s “Black Beauty” was one of his go-to guitars – and he was in fact photographed with it a day before his death
After the one-two punch of Rising Force and Marching out, rock guitar was never the same again. Malmsteen takes us back to 1985 – a different world – to explain just what was going on
Though Petty was in need of a decent electric, the two Heartbreakers quickly landed on a sound that would define their guitar partnership
The two musical giants traded licks before Wonder picked up Stevie's guitar
Though the ‘80s shred era seemingly left the standard Stratocaster for dead, the Swede’s neoclassical wizardry helped to, eventually, reverse the guitar’s fortunes
SRV played Strats with rosewood and maple fingerboards, and although he's more commonly associated with the former, his brother says he performed the same on both
