“I wanted a whole bunch of pickups, four or five. But Leo said they wouldn’t fit”: The creation and evolution of the Stratocaster, Leo Fender's greatest invention

Three Fender Stratocasters, sat upright.

The following story was originally published in the July 2004 issue of Guitar World.

On its 50th birthday, which arrives this year, the Fender Stratocaster is looking even more youthful, cool, and ultramodernist suave than David Bowie did on his 50th.