Latest about Rory Gallagher
Crushed under the wheels of a baggage truck, how Rory Gallagher’s ’59 Esquire rose from the dead
Heavily modded over the years, this hot-sounding Esquire was, outside of the Strat, Rory’s go-to Fender for slide work – but it nearly came to an untimely demise on an airport runway…
“The guitar has got a life of its own and it’s got to move on”: Inside the Rory Gallagher auction
Nearly 30 years after Rory Gallagher’s death, we join Rory’s brother Donal to find out why it’s time to let go of his legendary 1961 Fender Stratocaster as it heads to auction
Rory Gallagher’s family on why security concerns for his guitar collection encouraged them to sell it
The safety of the guitar has become an increasing concern over the years as several attempts to rehome it in a museum have failed
Joe Bonamassa plays Rory Gallagher's 1959 Esquire, calling him “one of my guitar heroes”
Bonamassa debunks the rumor that Gallagher only had one guitar throughout his career, namely, the '61 Fender Strat
That time Rory Gallagher got crippling stage fright because he was performing in front of his guitar hero
Gallagher's brother secretly invited one of Rory's biggest heroes to attend a show at the Royal Albert Hall – and even had him introduce the blues rock legend to the stage
Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell on why he opted for a guitar legend’s signature model as his “workhorse” instrument
Alongside two Fender Mustangs, the relic’d model is one of the main guitars that features on the band’s upcoming album, Romance
The Irish government wants to ensure Rory Gallagher’s iconic Fender Strat remains in the country
The government's interest follows a grassroots campaign that's hoping to raise enough money to keep the guitar in Ireland
A GoFundMe has been set up to buy Rory Gallagher’s 1961 Stratocaster in order to keep it in Ireland
Sheena Crowley – the daughter of the man who originally sold the guitar to Gallagher in 1963 – set up the fundraiser after it was announced Rory's Strat would be heading to auction
Rory Gallagher’s iconic ’61 Fender Stratocaster is heading to auction for the first time ever
As legend has it, Gallagher's Strat was the first to ever reach Irish soil, and it was used by the blues rock ace to cement himself as one of the all-time greats of guitar music
What made Rory Gallagher a true guitar one-off – and how he ended up with his first Fender Strat by accident
Jim Kirkpatrick, one of the world's leading experts on Gallagher's playing, puts the late blues-rock hero's tone under the microscope, revealing the gear and approaches that made the Strat-toting phenom one of the all-time greats
