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Paul McCartney said his very first performance with John Lennon went so badly that he swore off guitar solos
By Christopher Scapelliti last updated
McCartney's botched showpiece was the reason he pushed Lennon to bring George Harrison into the Quarrymen. The rest is Beatles history

John Lennon’s legendary Framus 12-string gets an official reissue just months after its landmark sale
By Phil Weller published
The guitar, used on a string of Beatles hits and missing for 50 years, has since become one of the most expensive guitars sold at auction

Paul McCartney said necessity made him and John Lennon learn to be ambidextrous guitar players
By Elizabeth Swann published
McCartney also revealed how he came to understand the bass guitar's transformational power while recording the Beatles' "Michelle"

Paul McCartney made some surprising revelations about his favorite guitar in our historic interview with him
By Tom Mulhern published
The former Beatle gave Guitar Player insights into "Taxman" and "Blackbird," as well as John Lennon's previously unknown fingerpicking skills

Brian Ray on the only time Paul McCartney and John Lennon got writer's block
By Jackson Maxwell published
“You have to remember,” Macca's longtime guitarist told us, “the Beatles did a record every six months”

John Lennon’s 1971 secret letter to Eric Clapton asking him to start a “ballsy” new rock band is headed for auction
By Phil Weller published
Lennon's letter, now headed to auction, was in part an attempt to help Clapton out of his heroin addiction

Why did the Beatles play Epiphone Casinos? It all comes back to one man
By Christopher Scapelliti published
John Mayall brought some famous guitarists to the fore. He also turned the Beatles on to one of their defining guitar models

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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