imagine... Season 14 Episode 2 - The Story of the Guitar - Out of the Frying Pan

Airdate: 2008-Oct-12

Episode summary:

Alan Yentob presents a three-part series examining how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument.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.

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The biggest names from the world of art, film, music, literature and dance. Alan Yentob gets close up with those shaping today's cultural worl...Show more >