# John Lennon's guitar auctioned for $2.4million

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 8, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennons-guitar-auctioned-for-2-4million/737004 "2015-11-08T12:47:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennons-guitar-auctioned-for-2-4million/737004/1 "2015-11-08T12:47:34Z")

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[http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-john-lennons-guitar-sells-for-2.4-million-at-auction-2015-11](http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-john-lennons-guitar-sells-for-2.4-million-at-auction-2015-11)

Buyer not disclosed. Biggest price for a guitar that I know of, acoustic like this or electric. Also says a drumhead used by Ringo on the Ed Sullivan show sold for $2.1 million. Sheesh!

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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennons-guitar-auctioned-for-2-4million/737004/2 "2015-11-08T12:54:19Z")

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Why oh why?

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**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennons-guitar-auctioned-for-2-4million/737004/3 "2015-11-08T13:01:42Z")

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I watched an hour long documentary on Magical Mystery Tour last night, the one with Martin Scorcesi. They were so, so happy at the end of '67. I really enjoyed that for them. Just a bunch of mates larking around having a brilliant laugh.

Artistically, culturally, politically, musically - any of them, at all, never mind the world wide glare, I don’t understand how you get from ‘Love Me Do’ to the psychedelic confidence of MMT in 4 1/2 years.

The journey that confirms an alien rate of progression for me is actually ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ to ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ - Oct '63 to April '66. 30 months: not humanly possible!

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**Author:** ![SpeedwayRyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SpeedwayRyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpeedwayRyan)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennons-guitar-auctioned-for-2-4million/737004/4 "2015-11-09T19:45:51Z")

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> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> Why oh why?

“Tell Me Why” would have been a better line.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennons-guitar-auctioned-for-2-4million/737004/5 "2015-11-09T19:49:06Z")

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Surely George’s guitar is doing more than gently weeping now.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-lennons-guitar-auctioned-for-2-4million/737004/6 "2015-11-09T20:06:00Z")

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> [@lieu](#):
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> Surely George’s guitar is doing more than gently weeping now.

He’s known for a few. Fortunately, many are in possession of his wife and son Dhani like his early Gretsches and Rickenbackers, painted Strat and Rosewood Tele. In an earlier thread, I discussed how Colts owner Jim Irsay owns a Gibson SG used by Harrison and Lennon mostly on the White Album.