FENDER ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY, FULLERTON, CIRCA 1954
FENDER ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY, FULLERTON, CIRCA 1954
FENDER ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY, FULLERTON, CIRCA 1954
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FENDER ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY, FULLERTON, CIRCA 1954

A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, TELECASTER

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FENDER ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY, FULLERTON, CIRCA 1954
A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, TELECASTER
Bearing the logo Fender / "TELECASTER" at the headstock, and stamped at the 6619 at the neck plate, with case
Length of back 15 3⁄4 in. (40 cm.)
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Part of Rodgers' "Tele Phase" in the mid-1980s, this 1950s Telecaster has a "brighter, more resonant sound" that features prominently in Madonna's Like a Virgin album (released in 1984), most specifically on Dress You Up. It provided ample inspiration and features on plenty of Rodgers' partnership works at the time including on Al Jarreau's L is for Lover album and Philip Bailey's Inside Out, both from 1986. The blonde "Tele" can also be heard on Outloud's eponymous album Out Loud! from 1987 and on the soundtrack for the 1984 crime drama Alphabet City, written and produced entirely by Rodgers. Of these influential mid-century Telecasters, Rodgers has said: “They lived, they were alive.”

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