TEISCO, JAPAN, CIRCA 1966-1969

Purchased in 2004 from Fat Dog’s Subway Guitars in Berkeley, California, Mark Knopfler used this Teisco guitar to record the song 'True Love Will Never Fade' at British Grove Studios for his 2007 solo studio album Kill To Get Crimson. Inspired by Sarah Hall’s 2005 novel The Electric Michelangelo, the tongue-in-cheek ballad was released as the album’s lead single in September 2007. Knopfler performed the sweet single on this red Spectrum 5 as part of the World Café broadcast live from British Grove Studios on 17 and 19 November 2007, which could be heard on almost 200 stations worldwide.