Object of desire

When, in 1965, acoustic folk singer Bob Dylan threw a spanner in the works by ‘going electric’, some in the audience cheered, folk song purists booed and it’s alleged that Pete Seeger tried to cut the sound cables with an axe. The following year he embarked on a world tour playing Robbie Robertson’s Fender Telecaster electric guitar. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the guitar was used extensively by Dylan and Robertson, plus Eric ...