Vox president, Tom Jennings, commissioned the London Design Centre to create a unique new electric guitar, and in 1962 Vox released the resulting instrument, the Phantom. It featured an unusual pentagonal body shape, three single-coil pickups, a Fender-ish neck and 6-on-a-side headstock, and a bridge with a Bigsby-like vibrato. The Phantom was difficult to play seated, but was otherwise considered a capable instrument. Early British Invasion band, The Echoes, and Ian Curtis of post-punk band, Joy Division, used Vox Phantoms. It also appeared in videos of artists, including Tom Petty and Greg Kihn.
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