Vintage View: Fender Stratocaster

Nothing sings, screams, whispers, moans, roars, rocks and rolls like a Fender Stratocaster, says Kya deLongchamps. 

THE mid-1950s marked the launch of what many regard as the best electric guitar available to every rocking man and woman — the Fender Stratocaster.

Magnificent just to have and to hold, the Stratocaster threw out not only the wide tonal palette expected of two or three guitars, but in the right hands, it even came up with brilliant new shades.