John Lennon’s lost guitar sold for nearly $3M — and you’ll never guess where it was found
nypost.commissing guitar featured in The Beatles’ 1965 film “Help!” sold at an auction at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe Wednesday for over $2.8 million.Julien’s Auctions confirmed in a statement that the Framus Hootenanny 12-string acoustic guitar became the fifth most-expensive guitar ever sold.The guitar was found in an attic after going missing 50 years ago.According to Julien’s Auctions, Lennon gave the guitar to fellow musician Gordon Waller in 1965.
Lennon and Paul McCartney had been writing songs for Waller at the time.Waller later gave the guitar to his manager, who brought it home and put it in his attic.
The guitar remained in the attic for the next five decades.Andy Babiuk, a musician, author, and Beatles gear expert, confirmed with Julien’s Auctions that the guitar is real.
The auction company said the guitar “has some distinctive markings which made it easily identifiable when compared to photos and stills from ‘Help!’ ““With the Hootenanny, the real proof is in the sound,” Julien’s Auctions continued. “When strummed, it immediately identifies itself as ‘that’ guitar.
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