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ROY WOOD

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ROY WOOD
A 1965 Fender Electric XII solidbody serial number L83915, Lake Placid blue finish with matching headstock, swept back doublecutaway body, maple neck, hockey stick headstock with Fender transitional logo and 12 Kluson machineheads, 21 fret rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, two split single coilpickups, selector switch, three controls, combination bridge/tailpiece with strings running through body, white pickguard and chrome control plate - formerly owned by Roy Wood of the Move and allegedly used by him on a number of recordings including the opening phrase of The Move's early hit single Flowers In The Rain, 1966; in original case stencilled with white lettering THE MOVE, HANDLE WITH CARE.

Lot Essay

This is one of the best known examples of the Fender Electric X11 guitars. It was featured in Neville Marten's article in Guitarist Magazine, September, 1988, pp.44-45 and will be featured in Richard Chapman's forthcoming article in Guitar Magazine, May 1st, 1992. It will also be included in a forthcoming book, Tony Bacon and Paul Day's The Fender Book to be published in the autumn, 1992 . Having apparantly been used by Roy Wood for the opening phrase of the Move's hit single Flowers In The Rain this guitar ..shares the dubious honour of opening the first bars of the first song to be played on B.B.C. Radio One.. (See N.Marten And Half A Dozen Of The Other!, Guitarist Magazine, September, 1988, pp 44-45.)

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