Happy 60th Birthday Fender Telecaster

You know one when you see it: gloriously simple, gracefully contoured, and a byword for how enduring the electric guitar has proved to be.
As a sumptuous new coffee-table book titled Fender: The Golden Age 1946-70 puts it: "It is a simple, no-frills instrument, yet still regarded as one of the finest electric guitars ever produced . . . There are very few mass-produced items that can boast the same uninterrupted lifespan."
In other words, it beggars belief how an object designed six decades ago doesn't look – or, more importantly, sound – kitsch or outdated.
The Telecaster's younger and less elegant sibling, the Stratocaster, tends to go wildly in and out of style, but this guitar remains as unimpeachably cool as ever.

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