John Lennon
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Former Beatle John Lennon's weirdest guitar is one of the last he played
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Check out the bizarre guitar John Lennon used on his last solo album.
“Why don’t you just play it the same way each time?” Paul McCartney asked Brian Ray why he performed a Beatles song like this. Here's what he said
By Joe Bosso last updated
The Paul McCartney guitarist shares his hard-won advice on how to perform any Beatles song perfectly
John Lennon’s first Vox amp has apparently been rediscovered after 60 years
By Phil Weller published
Discovered on an auction site covered in black paint, the amp used on Please Please Me and Love Me Do seems to have resurfaced after falling out of sight for six decades
John Lennon’s Help! Framus 12-string becomes one of the most expensive guitars to ever sell at auction
By Phil Weller published
The acoustic is now the most expensive Beatles guitar to ever sell at auction, having been lost for 50 years
John Lennon Played It on Repeat and Frank Sinatra Called It the Best Song of the ‘70s – Here’s How a Simple C9 Chord Inspired Little River Band’s Top-Ten Hit “Reminiscing”
By Gary Graff published
“It was a spiritual download that just flowed through me”: guitarist Graeham Goble explains how learning this extended chord unlocked LRB's “pinnacle song” in half an hour
The Incredible Story of How a Guitar Magazine Helped Find John Lennon’s Long-Lost Gibson J-160E
By Christopher Scapelliti published
Missing since 1963, this iconic Beatles guitar was found over half a century later and sold at auction for $2.4 million
The Iconic Rickenbacker 325 Has a Story Like No Other Electric Guitar
By Rod Brakes published
Favored by John Lennon, this short-scale model was the first in Rickenbacker’s defining Capri range
“It Was Pretty Obvious It Was a Song That Was Going to Go a Long Way”: Glenn Tipton Explains How John Lennon’s Home Inspired Judas Priest’s 1980 Classic “Living After Midnight”
By Mark McStea published
“It was just born from nothing and worked immediately,” recalls the guitarist
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