It's an iconic design and an iconic name. Born in 1950, the Telecaster is the guitar that changed the game for Fender – and 2025 marks 75 years of the firm’s most enduring design. If, among the ...

How a gift of thanks from one Yardbird alumnus to another turned a guitar into a bona-fide icon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A guitar that changed it all. 75 years ago, the Telecaster rewrote the rules, and it remains one of the most popular instruments ...

In April 2023, Fender announced the Squier Sonic range – a collection of Stratocasters, Telecasters, Mustangs and a handful of bass guitars that weighed in under $/£200. As a successor to the cult ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew Leimkuehler is a music journalist from Nashville, Tennessee. When someone steps on stage to play country music, the first ...

This year Fender is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster, and Nashville was chosen to host the Tele Town birthday party. I arrive in Nashville from Perth after three flights and around ...

A 75th Anniversary Tele that serves to showcase Fender’s unerring ability to keep its most-loved designs relevant and at the forefront of guitar culture, with classic sounds, superb feel and once more ...

Few guitars carry more historical weight than the Fender Telecaster. With its compact body and brash, incisive twang, the Telecaster—first introduced by Fender in the 1950s—played a pivotal role in ...

Despite garnering unflattering nicknames like "the snow shovel," "the boat paddle," and "the plank" for its simplicity and no-fuss design when it was introduced to the public in 1951, the Fender ...

Fender has cooked up an exquisite signature Telecaster for country superstar John Osborne, that comes fresh out the factory with what we would really have to describe as a Custom Shop modded vibe. It ...

The Fender Acoustasonic Player Telecaster is the latest addition to Fender’s new Acoustasonic line of guitars. The company started the Acoustasonic line at a hefty price, but this model scales back a ...