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    Gretsch G6120: The Story Of An Icon

    Mar 06, 2020 3 minutes
    Words Ed Mitchell

    If you happened to have been at home on 19 February 1981, you were probably watching Top Of The Pops. That night, a Thursday of course, you would have seen a trio of feral-looking kids blasting through their latest 45. Something called Rock This Town. It’s a brilliant performance, the sound of rockabilly at a time when New Romantic was all the thing.

    Front and centre is this Brian Setzer character, with his sky-high pompadour and a big orange Gretsch G6120 Chet Atkins.

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