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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

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

Watch the Beatles’ ‘Please Please Me’ Mini-Documentary
By Rod Brakes published
Video The Fab Four’s debut album turns 60 this year

Here's Why the Beatles’ ‘Let It Be... Naked’ Is a Must-Have Album
By Jim Campilongo published
The Fab Four’s 1970 swan song finds its groove in this 2003 redux

Watch the Claypool Lennon Delirium’s Deliriously Wonderful House of Blues Performance
By Mark McStea published
Video The quirky quartet puts on a dazzling display of supreme oddness
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