The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, acquired an early prized piece of music memorabilia on Wednesday that helped inspire a powerful new American art form and reshape global pop culture.
Rickenbacker’s 325 has a story like no other guitar. It’s hard to believe this quirky short-scale semi-hollowbody was a catalyst for the American firm’s meteoric success in the mid '60s (as people who ...
While names like Fender and Fullerton might resonate through Orange County’s deep rock ‘n’ roll history, it was Rickenbacker who started it all. The company in Santa Ana created the first electric ...
Rickenbacker International has a problem General Motors would love. The company that made the first electric guitar and instruments popularized by The Beatles can’t make them fast enough. “We’re ...
They have come to symbolise teen rebellion, equally at home playing angry anthems as heart-wrenching love songs. They've been worshipped, coveted… and smashed or set fire to on stage. Some cost ...
LITTLE ROCK — Rickenbacker International has a problem that General Motors would love to have. The company that made the first electric guitar and whose instruments were popularized by The Beatles in ...
Bonus Video: Rickenbacker Guitars, from Anaheim, California. Ever wonder what goes into creating a Rickenbacker guitar? Go behind the scenes with ROADSHOW host Mark L. Walberg to see how these fine ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images John Fogerty recently featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to ...
A Rickenbacker electric guitar sold by Nick Lee of Nicholas Lee Guitars in Lewes may have garnered a world-record price. The 1935 Rickenbacker full-scale electro-Spanish guitar, which Lee refers to as ...
The owner of Nicholas Lee Guitars in Lewes says he has sold a Rickenbacker electric guitar for $7.5 million, what would be a world-record price. But that claim has been met with skepticism from ...
On Aug. 10, 1937, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued Electro String Instrument Corp. a patent for electrical stringed musical instruments. The Electro String company, now known as ...
They have come to symbolise teen rebellion, equally at home playing angry anthems as heart-wrenching love songs. They've been worshipped, coveted… and smashed or set fire to on stage. Some cost ...