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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 world.

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imagine...: The Story of the Guitar

Alan Yentob

Roger Parsons

Janet Lee

Dave Gilmour

Pete Townshend

imagine...: The Story of the Guitar: Episode 2: Out of the Frying Pan

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Out of the Frying Pan

Episode 2

Episode 2: Out of the Frying Pan

The Story of the Guitar

BBC One - imagine..., The Story of the Guitar, Out of the Frying Pan

Alan Yentob discovers how music is changed for ever as the guitar turns electric.

Series examining the history of the guitar. The world's first electric guitar had nothing to do with jazz or blues, but evolved from Hawaiian-style music.

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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Alan Yentob hosts a three-part series looking at the history of the guitar.

Alan Yentob embarks on a three-part personal journey to discover how the guitar became the world's favourite musical instrument.

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