A HISTORY OF BROADWAY GUITARS

In Britain, back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, many a schoolboy probably yearned to own an electric guitar. As Tony Bacon put it in his introduction to 'Classic Guitars of the '50s', 'The 1950s created the teenager; the teenager demanded pop music; and pop music's shiniest icon was the electric guitar'. And for many schoolboys, or aspiring beat groups on a budget, a Broadway guitar was an affordable first step into the exciting world of rock n'roll.