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Electrifying - the History of the Electric Guitar

BBC Radio 2
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Rick Parfitt explores five decades of the electric guitar and its defining role in pop music. This final programme discovers how the advent of Britpop in the nineties gave a boost to the instrument, and how the continued popularity of the blues set the seal on 50 years of the electric guitar.

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Presenter:
Rick Parfitt
Producer:
Alistair McGhee
Source: Radio Times

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