Don Randall who has given the name to an infamous guitar model Fender Stratocaster died at the age of ninety one, said Associated Press. It happened at his home in California on December 23, but the information about it came out only on January 11. Randall had develeped the name “Stratocaster” in 1954 by giving an idea to Fender’s founder Leo Fender to change and re-develop an older version of it called “Telecaster”. This name had to associate with the cutting edge technologies and reflect Fender’s new ideas on it’s design. “Guitar Player” magazine editor Tom Willer used to say that without Randall the Stratocaster’s commercial success would never take place. In 1965 Randall was one of those who helped to sell Fender to CBS, practically he was the key negotiator. After this deal Stratocaster sort of lost it’s powerful popularity, but began to come back right after Jimmy Hendrix became it’s biggest fan. Eventually, it became tremendously popular and legendary. This model was used by Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Ritchie Blackmore, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Page, Billy Corgan and many others. Currently, Fender Stratocaster remains to be one of the most popular guitars in the world without any plans to go down.
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