Rose-Morris Guitar / Amp Advertisements, 1950s-1980s

Vintage Rose-Morris advertisements; 11 adverts covering a period of 5 years, from 1964 to 1969. Click the images to have a closer look.

Todays Most Sensational Guitar Sound
Rickenbacker 1996 - 1964

Beat Instrumental Polls 1966
Marshall Amplifiers - 1966

Now it's Marshall "200"
Marshall Amplifiers - 1966

Tiles - exclusively Marshall
Marshall Amplifiers - 1966

The Sound Of Sucess
Marshall Amplifiers - 1967

The Sound of Success
Marshall Amplifiers - 1967

Keep in Touch With the Sounds of Today
Eko Guitars - 1967

Top Singers - Top Groups Top Sounds By Marshall
Marshall Amplifiers - 1968

All Right, You Guys. So Impress Me
Marshall Amplifiers - 1969

You're Not Just a Pretty Face, Baby
Marshall Amplifiers - 1969

Hit the Road, Jack
Marshall Amplifiers - 1969

1967 Epiphone Ad featuring a psychedelic fish playing an Epiphone Riviera

1967 Fender Ad - Full Colour Sound

1973 Fender Stratocaster add - The Worlds Favourite Flying Machine

• electric guitar adverts
• acoustic guitar adverts
• bass adverts
• amplifier adverts
• effects pedal adverts

Guitar makers have advertised in music magazines such as Down Beat, Guitar Player and very many more. Some manufacturers advertised widely (Guild, Gibson, Fender) but many more didn't and adverts are few and far between. Here are some of my favourite ads out of the ones i've seen. You can browse through all the images from the category links above, or by manufacturer from the links below.

AMPS
Ampeg, Leslie, Marshall, Orange, Peavey, Sunn
GUITARS
Dan Armstrong, Epiphone, Fender, G&L, Gibson, Goya, Gretsch, Guild, Hagstrom, Harmony, Hayman, Hofner, Ibanez, Kimbara, Martin, Music Man, Rickenbacker, Vox, Yamaha
DISTRIBUTORS
Fletcher, Coppock and Newman, Rose-Morris, Rosetti, Selmer