50 years of orange

Orange founder Cliff Cooper) has been reflecting on the amp icon’s early champions as it reaches a landmark golden anniversary. “In those days I really idolised Peter Green in Fleetwood Mac,” Cliff (pictured above right) tells us of Orange’s beginnings as a shop in the late 60s. “When he came into the shop and we started making the amplifiers, he said, ‘Yeah I like it’ and he used it. Then we had Stevie Wonder use it almost straight after… when you’ve got people with ears like that endorsing you… it was lovely.”