Aired: Oct 5, 2008Beginning with the rise of the acoustic guitar, Alan Yentob traces the instru...
The Story of the Guitar
Season 1 Episode 2: Out of the Frying Pan...
As the guitar turns electric, music is changed for ever. The world’s first electric guitar had nothing to do with jazz or blues, but Hawaiian-style music and was known as the ‘frying pan’. Yentob continues his investigation from the blues of the Mississippi to the guitar wars of the 1950s, when the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul were battling for supremacy.
