“I bought my ’54 Strat from the biggest dealer in Sweden – he was crying when I walked away with the guitar”: Brian May, Steve Vai and Neal Schon have all given Yngwie Malmsteen guitars – but nothing compares to his Fender Strats

Yngwie Malmsteen is wearing aviator sunglasses and holds his signature Fender Stratocaster – a guitar that he promises you is the best you will ever find.

This month’s guest on Bought & Sold needs no introduction but we’re gonna give him one anyway, because his name is Yngwie Malmsteen and there is no-one quite like him.

In his own way, he is a renaissance man who loves Ritchie Blackmore and Niccolò Paganini alike. But ultimately the neoclassical shred icon is a man of simple tastes. Fender Stratocasters. Marshall amps. Seymour Duncan electric guitar pickups. Ferraris. He finally realised a long-held ambition to fire a gun in the studio as a drum trigger when he recorded 2021 studio album Parabellum.