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Guitar Designer Leo Fender Dies

uncredited writer, Rolling Stone, 16 May 1991

CLARENCE LEO Fender, the inventor whose solid-body electric guitars changed the course of music history, died on March 21st in Fullerton, California. The eighty-two-year-old Fender had fought a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease.

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