Tomorrow is Father's Day, one of those manufactured notions designed to make you buy more stuff that other people don't need. However, if you feel the urge to make a manly gesture towards your father, beyond a stiff handshake or some such uncomfortable effort, and he's musically inclined, then take a peek at Fender: The Golden Age.
This hardback celebrates the heyday of what many regard as the greatest guitar maker of them all, and features hundreds of gorgeous illustrations and pictures that will have music nerds, old and young, fawning over the pages. Take this exquisite Fender Coronado. Now that is a work of art – look at the sexy curvaceous body, the glint in the eye of the cheeky tuning heads, the graceful roll of the neck . . . I'll stop now.
Fender: The Golden Age 1946-1970by Martin Kelly, Paul Kelly and Terry Foster, is published by Cassell, £25, and can be found in bookshops nationwide.
