I want to hold your 12 string: John Lennon’s lost guitar heads to auction
After spending the last 50 years in an attic, John Lennon’s famous 'Help!' guitar is headed to auction as part of the upcoming “Music Icons” sale at Julien’s Auctions on 29 and 30 May. Both Lennon and George Harrison played the Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar while making the album and accompanying film Help!, as well as their 1965 album 'Rubber Soul'. The guitar then went for a trip. It ended up with Scottish singer-songwriter Gordon Waller, who was one-half of the duo Peter and Gordon, before being passed on a road manager. Fifty years later, it was discovered in an attic in the ...