A guitar played by George Harrison in the early days of The Beatles has sold at auction for $1.27million (£1.01million).
As reports note, the Resonet Futurama guitar was purchased by Harrison at a music store in Liverpool in 1959 and he went on to play it in at least 324 Beatles shows.
The Nashville auction house Julien’s had listed the expected price between $600,000 and $800,000, but the eventual price tag makes the instrument the most expensive guitar owned by Harrison ever to be sold at auction.
The Futurama went on to feature on some of the band’s earliest studio visits, including the 1961 Tony Sheridan single “My Bonnie” that Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney all played on in their first-ever commercial recording session. Harrison also used the guitar to write and record “Cry For A Shadow” with Lennon in 1961.
George Harrison’s guitar was sold as part of an auction titled Played, Worn & Torn II that ran on November 20 and 21. Other lots from music history were also donated by the likes of The Rolling Stones, McCartney, Eric Clapton and Nirvana. A guitar played by Prince on his 1986 ‘Parade’ tour went for $381,000 (£305,000).
