{"id":29617,"date":"2024-05-29T21:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-lennons-help-guitar-sells-for-a-record-2-9-million-at-auction\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T21:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T21:02:35","slug":"john-lennons-help-guitar-sells-for-a-record-2-9-million-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-lennons-help-guitar-sells-for-a-record-2-9-million-at-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon’s “Help!” guitar sells for a record $2.9 million at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtesy of Julien’s Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looks like someone didn’t need any “Help!” spending their money on a unique\u00a0collectible from The Beatles<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the first day of its Music Icons sale at the Hard Rock Cafe New York, Julien’s Auctions sold a 12-string guitar <\/a>used by John Lennon<\/strong> to record several Beatles classics for a whopping $2.9 million. That makes it the most expensive Beatles guitar ever to sell at auction. The person who bought it purchased it via a telephone bid, the auction house says.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, the Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar was used by both John and George Harrison<\/strong> to record songs like “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” “Girl,” “It’s Only Love,” “I’ve Just Seen a Face,” “Help!” and “Norwegian Wood.” It can also be seen in the movie Help!<\/em><\/p>\n

Presumed lost for 50 years, the guitar was recently discovered in the attic of a 90-year-old man who once worked as the road manager for the ’60s duo Peter and Gordon<\/strong>. The duo’s Gordon Waller<\/strong> had gotten it from Lennon in 1965 and then passed it along to the road manager.<\/p>\n

Other Beatles items sold during the auction’s first day include the band’s RIAA Gold single award for “Hey Jude,” previously owned by Julian Lennon<\/strong>, which went for nearly $32,000<\/a>, and a copy of the band’s Please Please Me<\/em> album signed by all four Beatles, which went for $39,000.<\/a>\u00a0A guitar played by early Beatles collaborator Tony Sheridan<\/strong>, who worked with them during the very early ’60s, sold for more than $76,200<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Julien’s Auctions Looks like someone didn’t need any “Help!” spending their money on a unique\u00a0collectible from The Beatles.\u00a0 On the first day of its Music Icons sale at the Hard Rock Cafe New York, Julien’s Auctions sold a 12-string guitar used by John Lennon to record several BeatlesRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}