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Paul McCartney

“Here to make its first stage appearance in 50 years is my original bass.” Paul McCartney’s iconic Höfner bass returns to the stage after being lost for over 50 years as he brings the Got Back tour to a star-studded close

By Phil Weller published

Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood helped cap the curtain-closing show. But the reappearance of the bass was the biggest surprise of all

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George Harrison (1943 - 2001) of the Beatles at a concert in Copenhagen with Eric Clapton and Delaney and Bonnie.

An unusual guitar is at the center of a mystery about the Beatles' White Album

By Christopher Scapelliti published

The rare fretless guitar appears to have been used on "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and "Helter Skelter"

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George Harrison's Futurama guitar

The guitar that launched the Beatles is going to the auction block. Here's what George Harrison said about it.

By Phil Weller published

"All the other guitars fell off the wall!" George Harrison recalled when he and Paul McCartney demoed his historic Futurama at the music shop

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CAVERN CLUB and George HARRISON and BEATLES, George Harrison performing live onstage, playing Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet guitar

Five of George Harrison's Most Iconic Beatles-Era Guitars

By Guitar Player Staff published

From the Grestch Duo Jet used in the Beatles’ earliest recordings to the late '60s prototype Fender Rosewood Telecaster, here are five of George Harrison's most celebrated guitars

Electric Guitars
George Harrison's Bartell fretless

The Mysterious History of George Harrison’s “Mad” Bartell Fretless

By Christopher Scapelliti published

'Finding Fretless' Author Paul Brett reveals how his relentless sleuthing uncovered a most unusual Beatles guitar.

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