10 iconic guitars, how much do you know about them?

The world's great guitarists undoubtedly love their guitars. It's not just because they like to play music with them, but also because they carry the expectations of their relatives, the remembrance of their friends and the pursuit of their dreams. These elements have been supporting everyone who wants to give up, encouraging and accompanying them through countless days and nights. Becoming their "music companions".

When Jimi Hendrix (JIMI HENDRIX) set fire to his Stratocaster at the Monterey Pop Festival, he explained it as an act of love. "You sacrifice what you love, and I love my guitar."

Stevie Ray Vaughan even referred to his favorite six-string guitar as his first wife.

Let's take a look at which ten are they?

1.Kurt Cobain's 'Jag-Stang'
According to the late Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, he designed his own guitar by cutting and splicing Polaroid photos of the Fender Jaguar and Fender Mustang. After Cobain's death, Fender began to produce this guitar, and Courtney Love handed her husband's powder-blue prototype to Peter Buck of REM.

2.Jimi Hendrix's Stratocaster"
The colorful Strat that the guitar god played during his breakthrough performance at the Monterey Pop Festival is known for its short lifespan: Hendrix set it on fire during that famous performance. Replicas of its flower power design are still popular - John Mayer played one of them.

3.Paul McCartney's Höfner Violin Bass
The bassist of The Beatles first encountered the violin-shaped bass guitar during his apprenticeship with the band in Hamburg, Germany, and this guitar defined his stage image. McCartney said he liked the symmetry of the bass, which made playing with the left hand look "less stupid"

4.BB King's "Lucille"
In 1949, after blues musician BB King rescued a $30 Gibson guitar from a burning dance hall in Arkansas, he learned that the fire was caused by two men fighting over a woman named Lucille. Since then, he has called each of his guitars by this name, including Gibsons and Telecasters. In 1980, Gibson began manufacturing the BB King signature "Lucille" model, a variation of the company's ES-355, a combination of hollow and solid.

5.Jimmy Page's "Gibson EDS-1275"
The double-neck Gibson guitar (12 strings on the top, 6 strings on the bottom) of the guitarist of Led Zeppelin is this unforgettable guitar that made the multi-part "Stairway to Heaven" a certified epic and spawned a large number of imitators.

6.George Harrison's "Rickenbacker"
The resident guitar master of The Beatles was also known for playing Gretsch guitars, but his most iconic guitar might be the ringing 1963 Rickenbacker 12-string guitar. The company boss gave this guitar to them during the band's first US tour, and Harrison fell in love with it immediately.

7.Eric Clapton's "Blackie'
Eric Clapton's beloved Blackie is a custom Fender Stratocaster from the 1950s, assembled from parts of three Strats purchased by the guitarist in a Nashville store in the 1970s. The guitar was retired in the mid-1980s: at an auction for the Crossroads Guitarists Rehabilitation Center in 2004, it set a record at the time for $959,500.

8.Neil Young's "Old Black"
Most of Neil Young's electric guitar tracks were recorded on Old Black, the guitarist's 1950s vintage Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, which he traded in 1969.

9.Bruce Springsteen's "Fender Esquire"
The natural wood guitar hanging on Bruce Springsteen's shoulder on the cover of the 1975 iconic album "Born to Run" is sometimes thought to be a Telecaster, but it is actually a 1950s Fender Esquire that has undergone considerable modification.

10.Prince
Prince shot to fame in the movie "Purple Rain" with his curvaceous custom Cloud guitar designed by a local Minneapolis luthier and replicated by Schecter guitars.

The above ten signature guitars each have their own characteristics. Their emergence and development have added brilliant chapters to the history of music. Here, we should pay tribute to these admired music masters and their "music companions".