GEORGE HARRISON’S ‘ROCKY’ STRAT GETS A TRIPPED-OUT REPLICA

Fender has announced a faithful recreation of George Harrison’s ‘Rocky’ Stratocaster, as made famous by its appearance in The Beatles’ 1967 Magical

MysteryTour film.

Harrison’s guitar was originally a Sonic Blue Strat, purchased in 1965 and still bearing the decal from the music store it came from: ‘Grimwoods; The music people; Maidstone and Whitstable’.

In 1967, Harrison gave the guitar its dayglo paint job, and by December ‘69, he had painted ‘Bebopalula’ on the body, ‘Go Cat Go’ on the pickguard’ and ‘Rocky’ on the headstock.

In creating this new model, Fender Custom Shop Master Builder Paul

Waller examined and measured the original guitar – which boasted a rare asymmetrical C-profile neck – and its pickups to create a meticulous replica, right down to the ‘Grimwoods’ decal.