Once Again, A Famous Player's Guitar is Up for Auction

The condition of the Rickenbacker when it was sold.

According to USAtoday, George Harrison, from the famous British band, The Beatles, may have had many fans go to the Hard Rock Café in Manhattan on May 17 of this year (2014). George Harrison's Rickenbacker guitar was to be put at auction in the Hard Rock Café. It had been expected to fetch around $600,000. The guitar was a 1962 Rickenbacker 425 that had been refinished from a Fireglo red finish to a black finish to replicate the guitar that John Lennon had used during the time that The Beatles had been together. The guitar was not the only Beatles memorabilia held at the auction. A signed "Beatles '65" album was one of the other Beatlemania collectables sold at the auction that was expected to sell for approximately $300,000. The Rickenbacker guitar had been expected to fetch around $600,000 and when it did sell, the estimate was correct, as the guitar sold for $657,000. This guitar I personally believe could have fetched more money, as it had actually been played by the legendary George Harrison. I do not understand how Bob Dylan's guitar can go for $965,000, but the guitar used by the guitarist and occasional vocalist for The Beatles sold for less. The Beatles will forever be a part of American and British history and people will always pay great sums for their equipment and memorabilia.


The Rickenbacker's original condition.