The History of the Guitar in the 50s

Buddy Holly was the only first ranked 50s rocker who played a Stratocaster. Hank Marvin of The Shadows inspired pretty much every guitarist in Britain to copy him. But other than in surf music, the Strat wasn't really popular until around 1967. You'd occasionally get a Telecaster player in the 50s. Most of the Chicago Electric Blues people seemed to have been Gibson people and so was Chuck Berry. Scotty Moore also played the Gibson but rather than go for the Les Paul, they'd mostly go for hollow-bodied models like the L5.